Poland's right-wg populist lear Andrzej Duda me to power last year on a platform cryg a ‘LGBT-iology’ he alleged was spreadg throughout his untry at the expense of tradnal fay valu. Now, dozens of Polish municipali have enacted "LGBT iology ee zon" makg members of the gay muny this European Unn member state fear for their safety. Simon Ostrovsky reports om Poland wh support om the Pulzer Center.
Contents:
- POLAND WILL NOT LET EU 'FORCE' TO ALLOWG GAY MARRIAG, SAYS JTICE MISTER
- WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
- MEET POLAND’S OUT GAY LAWMAKER FIGHTG FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
- WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … POLAND?
- MEET POLAND’S OUT GAY LAWMAKER FIGHTG FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
- EASTERN AND WTERN EUROPE DIVID OVER GAY MARRIAGE, HOMOSEXUALY
POLAND WILL NOT LET EU 'FORCE' TO ALLOWG GAY MARRIAG, SAYS JTICE MISTER
LGBT Rights Poland: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * is gay marriage legal in poland *
Back 2005, gay rights activists had to fight to march Warsaw. It ranks 27 out of 28 European Unn stat when to equaly and non-discrimatn, acrdg to Rabow Europe, an anizatn lked to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn. Anti-gay attacks are not nsired a hate crime by law.
” Acrdg to the Campaign Agast Homophobia, 12 percent of people who don’t intify as heterosexual are victims of physil vlence Poland, while around nety percent of cints go unreported, acrdg to the 2016 survey.
WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
Poland's jtice mister said on Monday the European Unn may be a posn to force Warsaw to legalize gay marriage if EU lears make fancial aid ndnal on upholdg mocratic norms, and warned that this was unacceptable. * is gay marriage legal in poland *
Neverthels, “attus towards the LGBTQ muny have e a long way” says Robert Biedron, who beme Poland’s first openly gay and atheistic polician when he me out 2011. He c the risg number of pri monstrators and the fact that he now endur far fewer anti-gay sults om policians and the media.
Several thoand people took part the march that was meant to unter the gay pri march of the prev day. Mirosława Makuchowska, om the Campaign Agast Homophobia, says while such announcements are not legally bdg, they send a “disturbg msage” to the populatn.
Biedron, Poland’s first openly gay polician, says PiS are “lookg for a spegoat and are explog people’s sense of secury. How has Polish media fluenced anti-gay rhetoric?
MEET POLAND’S OUT GAY LAWMAKER FIGHTG FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
An latn verbal attacks by the Polish ernment, wh the support of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the threat of physil vlence on the streets of many ci, has triggered an exod of gay people. * is gay marriage legal in poland *
As Biedron puts , “Polish people have long been surround by rmatn sayg that homosexualy is a disease that n e bra damage. ” A 2017 report by the Centre for Rearch on Prejudice of the Universy of Warsaw found that sce PiS entered ernment 2015, Polish populatn’s exposure to hate speech the media, cludg agast gay people, has creased by 25%.
The report stat that hate speech is “particularly dangero for youth, ” who were found to e hate speech most often and whose “sensivy to homophobic statements” creased. More than 40% of young people said they had ed hate speech agast gay people and refuge. One member of Budapt Pri, which aniz pri events, Viktória Radványi, tells TIME that “ spe of the growg number of people jog equaly march, homophobia the ernment and the prs has creased over the past few months.
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … POLAND?
* is gay marriage legal in poland *
” Durg a Budapt fom on May 15 as part of the European electns mpaign, a Fisz member and Chair of the Natnal Assembly Laszlo Kover, said there was “no moral difference” between pedophil and gay upl adoptg children.
MEET POLAND’S OUT GAY LAWMAKER FIGHTG FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
An latn verbal attacks by the Polish ernment, wh the support of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the threat of physil vlence on the streets of many ci, has triggered an exod of gay people. * is gay marriage legal in poland *
Biedron, who suffered four anti-gay physil asslts when he served as a Member of Parliament om 2011 to 2014, says “the distance between hate speech and hate crime is small. ” He believ the bt way to unteract anti-gay sentiment is to “expla to the public that who we’re talkg about when we talk about LGBT people.
Gay Marriage⚭✖ Foreign same-sex marriag regnized onlyChangg Genr✔ Legal, surgery not requiredNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ Illegal some ntextsEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog DiscrimatnN/AConversn Therapy✖ Not banned.
EASTERN AND WTERN EUROPE DIVID OVER GAY MARRIAGE, HOMOSEXUALY
Views on same-sex marriage or other legal regnnViews on same-sex upl' right to adoptAcceptance of homosexuals as neighbors?
9%) Mentned homosexualsDid not mentn homosexuals (64.
5%)Jtifiabily of homosexualy?