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.
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No no dont touch me there that is my gay zone squarurpremelearoftas_201515 may 20200. Gay Disaster Zone. Councillors Nowa Dęba – a town of 11, 000 southeast Poland – voted to undo a 2019 lg that clared the regn “ee om LGBT+ iology” rolutn, rooted a relig nservatve terpretatn of “tradnal” fay life, spelt out the town’s termatn to “fend agast aggrsive, ceptive and harmful LGBT iology” and so-lled “homo-propaganda” last week’s vote, 10 of the 15 uncillors voted favour of whdrawg the rolutn, one abstaed, and the remag four attend the meetg but did not vote.
”Bart Staszewski, a filmmaker and Polish gay rights activist who has worked to highlight “LGBT+ ee zon”, said: “Council members of Nowa Dęba cid to whdraw the LGBT-ee zone bill they clared late 2019. “That's good the uncillors repealed the shameful rolutn, but unfortunanely they still don't see anythg homophobic . “At the prent moment, the right-wg ernment has faced powerful ristance om the lbian and gay muny, and is also facg powerful ristance om women and those fightg for abortn on mand.
Bartosz Staszewski, a Polish activist who mpaigns agast ‘LGBT+ ee zon' (Getty Imag)At least 100 municipali or regns, mostly nservative southeastern Poland, have passed claratns that vowed to keep out “LGBT+ iology” or adopted “fay charters” that backed heterosexual actn forms part of an unprecented asslt on LGBT+ rights Poland that has gaed momentum sce 2019 wh the tablishment of anti-gay “zon”, activists say. In one se, a Polish newspaper distributed stickers wh homophobic slogans and a crossed-out Pri flag, while participants at a Pri rally the cy of Białystok were fend by rt police after far-right groups attacked marchers wh ston and von r Leyen, print of the European Commissn, has strongly nmned the suatn Poland, sayg “LGBTQI-ee zon are humany ee zon.
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And they have no place our unn” hold flags and plards durg the first gay pri march on July 20, 2019 the cy of Bialystok (AFP/Getty Imag)Human Rights Watch (HRW) has lled on Polish thori to “stop tryg to silence activists who support LGBT+ rights”, warng an “overly broad” blasphemy law vlat eedom of exprsn and signals the “further terratn of the le of law Poland” Article 196 of Poland’s crimal , a person who “offends the relig feelgs of others by publicly sultg a relig object or place of worship” fac up to two years said a wave of arrts Poland had followed a mpaign of placg rabow flags on proment public Knight, senr LGBT+ rights rearcher at HRW, said: “Spegoatg and targetg a vulnerable mory is beg a route and nasty part of the ernment’s playbook, wh dangero repercsns for human rights.
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