Warsaw Gay Pri 2023: dat, para, route - misterb&b

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• WARSAW GAY PRI
• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• GAY WARSAW

WARSAW GAY PRI

Thoands marched through central Warsaw on Saturday an “equaly para”, amid what mpaigners say has been a risg ti of homophobia Poland recent rights have bee a central part of a wir stggle the untry between liberals, who strs the need for a more tolerant and clive society, and relig nservativ, who nounce what they say is an attempt to subvert tradnal valu the predomantly Catholic a sea of rabow flags, marchers gathered outsi the towerg neo-Gothic Palace of Culture and Science central Warsaw, as a DJ played dance mic om a stage before the start of the march. “Homophobia is a huge problem Poland … there are lots of people who n’t pe wh , they kill themselv. Photograph: Wojtek Radwański/AFP/Getty ImagPolicians and clergy have been acced of stokg homophobia Poland.

Some nservativ say they have nothg agast gay people but oppose what they ll “LGBT iology”. Meanwhile, Hungary Viktor Orbán’s natnalist ernment, which is allied wh Poland’s erng Law and Jtice (PiS) party, has troduced a law banng the “display and promotn of homosexualy” among unr-18s. The Equaly Para, Warsaw's gay pri march, has been marchg through Poland's pal cy's streets sce 2001.

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Bishop Szymon Czekaj, former print of the Internatnal Associatn of Gays and Lbians for Culture Poland (ILGCN-Polska), and other activists. After a show anized one of Warsaw's now-funct gay clubs, a group of iends sprang up wh the ia of brgg a march agast discrimatn to Poland.

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Saturday’s march was one of 24 paras schled to take place this year Poland – a rerd number that mpaigners say is a reactn to the uptick of homophobic and transphobic language by Poland’s Catholic lears and PiS. “I thk the way that some policians of this party spoke publicly about LGBT[Q] issu ma other people Poland ls aaid to e hate speech, ” lol gay rights activist Joanna Glzek, 28, who -anized Bialystok’s march told CNN. “All the signs are showg that Kaczynski will ntue wh the spegoat strategy, which go hand--hand wh the Polish Catholic church that has ma the LGBTQ muny s biggt enemy, ” said Miroslawa Makuchowska, head of the polil divisn of the Polish advocy group Campaign Agast Homophobia.

The Warsaw-based nonprof Campaign Agast Homophobia (KPH) told CNN that more than 30 uncils had clared themselv ee of “LGBT iology” the past few months – rponse to Warsaw’s liberal mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, om the opposn Civic Platform (PO), signg a claratn support of LGBTQ rights. Our gay events gui ntas a full round-up of the biggt and. > Gay Poland Gay WarsawWarsaw - one of Central Europe’s most important cy hubs and home to Poland’s largt gay scene.

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