Study: Gay Pol headg to UK to 'flee discrimatn' Poland | PkNews

Contents:

• STORI OF POLISH GAY IMMIGRATN THE UK
• GAY POL HEAD FOR UK TO PE STATE CRACKDOWN
• STUDY: GAY POL HEADG TO UK TO ‘FLEE DISCRIMATN’ POLAND
• GAY DICTNARY POLISH
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–POLISH DICTNARY
• THE 5 BEST POLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS POLAND
• FEATURE: BRA’S NCENTRATN MPS FOR GAY MEN
• GAY POLISH DRAMA ‘ALL OUR FEARS’ ACQUIRED FOR NORTH AMERI BY ARIZTIL (EXCLUSIVE)

STORI OF POLISH GAY IMMIGRATN THE UK

While they tend to be imaged as nservative, relig and homophobic, some of them are lbian, gay, bisexual, trans or queer (LGBTQ). For them, Brex ‘mixed up everythg’, the words of a Polish gay man livg London. Many of those rponnts scribed Poland g such negative exprsns as ‘homophobia’, ‘tolerance’ and ‘lack of acceptance’, while they characterised the UK as ‘tolerant’, ‘open’ and ‘ee’.

It would be unfair to pict Poland as ‘typilly’ homophobic and the UK as ‘sentially’ tolerant towards LGBTQs. A gay man his 40s moved to Stland 2016 bee of the polil suatn Poland and the UK:.

GAY POL HEAD FOR UK TO PE STATE CRACKDOWN

A gay man his 30s based London explaed that Brex hurt him ‘bee I me here to feel ee and this eedom was taken away om me a way. Lasz is the thor of Transnatnal Homosexuals Communist Poland: Cross-Borr Flows Gay and Lbian Magaz (2018, Palgrave) and -edor of LGBTQs, Media and Culture Europe (2017, Routledge).

Homophobia Poland is another major reason of Polish immigratn to the UK. In fact, gay Pol ci to book a one-way flight ticket to London to pe discrimatn.

Gay Pol UK say they are not planng to return to their untry bee they felt too huiated and irrated by the hate speech and anti-gay discrimatn a recent study I nducted among young Polish stunts and young profsnals, was shockg to fd that many young Pol dissociate themselv om their untry bee of homophobia. 66% of London-based stunts (of any sexual orientatn) om Poland thk anti-gay speech their untry is a mon phenomenon and 75% nsirs UK a more gay-iendly society. I cid to reach UK's stunt LGBT societi across UK orr to hear om gay Pol' experienc and opns.

STUDY: GAY POL HEADG TO UK TO ‘FLEE DISCRIMATN’ POLAND

Ka, a 20-year-old former IB stunt om Gdańsk, is now studyg Medice at the top rankg Universy College London, award one of the leadg gay-iendly universi UK, acrdg to Stonewall's Gay by Degree. Three Polish teenagers broke his jaw and beat him up bee 'he looked gay'. A young, recently graduated Polish gay uple om Warsaw told me their low e was not the ma reason why they cid to move abroad.

They said was difficult to live one apartment as a gay uple. Robert Biedroń, first openly gay MP Poland and former lear of KPH (Campaign Agast Homophobia), said that ' is impossible for gays to be themselv Poland'.

They choose to live ci like London bee is one of the most gay-iendly ci 's on-gog discsn on same-sex marriage and gay adoptns has been nmned by Church thori who have strong fluence on the public opn. The attempt of Polish anti-gay mpaigners to 'fend fay and relig valu' promis basic human rights and enurag a massive Polish tellectual emigratn. I almost regret not havg done a survey on how many people told me was 'shameful' to talk about homophobia Poland to foreign media bee would 'jeopardise Poland's reputatn'.

GAY DICTNARY POLISH

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TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–POLISH DICTNARY

Polish gay rights groups claim thoands of homosexuals have fled the untry to pe creasg Biedron, 27, the head of the Polish Foundatn Agast Homophobia, said that 'huge numbers' of Polish gays had left the untry followg the rise to power of the right-wg ernment. The Polish gay muny has jt left bee of the climate of fear and persecutn. Not for enomic reasons, but bee of the persecutn of homosexuals gog on here.

THE 5 BEST POLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS POLAND

It's impossible for gays to be themselv Poland. 'He add: 'Around two ln Pol have left the untry seekg work and thoands of gays are among them. Many gays are approachg our foundatn for help emigratg to the UK.

FEATURE: BRA’S NCENTRATN MPS FOR GAY MEN

'Ka Zapasnik, 22, a gay stunt who moved to London bee he wanted to marry, said: 'It's very important to me that I am able to have a civil partnership and adopt children. 'Poland's Roman Catholic right-wg ernment has openly homophobic members and Polish media recently announced that the Health Mistry had created a special mtee rponsible for 'curg' Deputy Health Mister, Marek Grafowski, said that the mistry was also planng to intify how many people Poland were gay and work out a set of behavural guis to assist parents and teachers so that they n regnise any warng signs of potential 'gay behavur' police have also been pilg a database on gays and the gay muny Poland which, although illegal unr EU law, is apparently beg done as part of a police vtigatn to a bomb threat two years ago by a gay man.

He had reportedly intified himself as a member of the gay muny who was angry when a gay rights march was banned Warsaw.

'The police are not allowed to talogue "homosexual data", but 's enough to look to the police vtigatn associated wh the bomb orr to tablish a list of nam and addrs, ' said Ewa Kulza, a former personal data protectn general is not jt the police who are openly homophobic. 'When Krystian Legierski, 29, opened a gay club, Le Madame, was shut down by Warsaw lol thori who hired private secury guards to break down the doors, spe an appearance there by John Malkovich a day earlier. Policians' hostily to gay rights has bee a flashpot, ptg the relig right agast more liberal-md Pol.

GAY POLISH DRAMA ‘ALL OUR FEARS’ ACQUIRED FOR NORTH AMERI BY ARIZTIL (EXCLUSIVE)

And gay people livg the areas are faced wh a choice: emigrate, keep their heads down - or fight back. It crimalised homosexualy 1932, s before most European untri.

But he is agast what he scrib as "aggrsive iology promotg homosexualy".

The stggle for gay rights is a foreign ncept imported om the US and Wtern Europe, he adds, and threatens the tradnal heterosexual Polish fay.

Fd out moreWh state-sanctned homophobia and a largely hostile media, Polish gay people risk beg phed back to the closet, pecially small towns. Image ptn, Bart Staszewski SwidnikWhen I arrive on a Saturday morng, half a dozen gay activists are the ma square handg out leaflets, "love is love" stickers and iced doughnuts wh multi-loured sprkl. Their spokman, Bart Staszewski, has anised what he lled a queer tour of Poland's east to show people that gay people are "normal cizens" adds: "We are the rabow myth-bters.