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.
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28, 2020When Print Andrzej Duda of Poland was sworn on Thursday for a send term office after a bterly divisive mpaign which he rallied support by targetg homosexualy as a threat to the natn, he looked out over the floor of Parliament to fd a sea of was not a celebratn. Duda spoke, and they lifted pi of the Constutn above their words were Radwanski/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagThe rabow flag, which first emerged as a symbol of solidary for gay rights activists the Uned Stat the late 1970s, has bee a touchstone the culture wars that have left Poland more eply divid than perhaps any pot sce the end of Communist Party le while there was speculatn that the ernment would soften s rhetoric after Mr.
Muny, but also a rejectn of what they view as a ernment-led mpaign of tolerance, hatred and when gay rights activists seized on the announcement by the European Unn that was blockg funds, the flag was their weapon of Pempel/RtersThey published a manifto lled “Stop the Nonsense, ” clarg that was time to fight discrimatn. As long as the last homophobic livery van don’t disappear om our streets, this is our maniftatn of otherns — this rabow.
”The mentn of the vans refers to a mon sight Polish ci: tcks ftooned wh homophobic imagery that blare msag om loudspeakers accg gay people of all sorts of vile crim, cludg activists then posted pictur on social media showg rabow flags hangg om important Warsaw monuments and pk masks strapped on the fac on some of the statu. Jtyna Nakielska, who reprents the Polish group Campaign Agast Homophobia, said the arrts were meant to serve as a public spectacle.