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

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• WARSAW GAY PRI
• GAY WARSAW · CY GUI
• WARSAW GAY MAP

WARSAW GAY PRI

The Equaly Para, Warsaw's gay pri march, has been marchg through Poland's pal cy's streets sce 2001. Bishop Szymon Czekaj, former print of the Internatnal Associatn of Gays and Lbians for Culture Poland (ILGCN-Polska), and other activists.

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"Rsia passed a law 2013 that bans the pictn of homosexualy to mors, somethg human rights groups view as a way to monize LGBTQ people and discrimate agast them. Dubbed the "Gay Propaganda" law, me amid a larger crackdown on civil liberti Rsia and spired the passage of a siar law Hungary last year.

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KyivPri uld not take place the Ukraian pal this year bee martial law prevents large gathergs, Emson Saturday, will be given the honor of leadg the Equaly Para Warsaw — one of many ways that Pol have stepped up to help their embattled Ukraian 's nservative ernment has been a strong ally of Ukrae, sendg humanarian aid and weapons and allowg s terrory to be ed to for other untri to transfer aid of their s stance on LGBTQ rights has also ma Poland an unlikely host for a gay rights recent years the ernment has picted the LGBTQ rights movement as an attack on the natn's Catholic tradns and as a force that threatens to rpt the youth, echog the rhetoric behd the Rsian and Hungarian Polish society as a whole has grown more acceptg of LGBTQ people. Print Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose urageo wartime learship has gaed attentn recent months, won the rpect of LGBTQ people Ukrae when a man wearg a cross and spoutg homophobic rhetoric heckled him at a news nference 2019. 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.

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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 event joed Warsaw's yearly equaly para, the largt gay pri event central Europe, g as a platform to keep ternatnal attentn foced on the Ukraian stggle for eedom.