Love is Love: A Gay & Gay-Friendly Gui to Kraków

Contents:

• WARSAW GAY PRI
• THE GAY PRI EVENTS EUROPE WORTH TRAVELLG FOR 2022
• LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
• POLAND DECLAR ITSELF ‘LGBT FREE’ AS GAY PARAS TURN BLASPHEMO
• WARSAW GAY PRI PARA BACK AFTER BACKLASH, PANMIC
• POLAND GAY PRI PARA DRAWS THOANDS
• GAY PRI GETS POLIL POLAND
• LGBTQ+ KRAKóW | GAY & GAY-FRIENDLY GUI TO KRAKóW
• IN CONSERVATIVE POLAND, GAY PRI PARAS AND RABOW ART
• FILE:GAY PRI FLAG OF
• POLAND: GAY PRI PARA IS ATTACKED KRAKóW
• GAY PARA WARSAW MEETS JEERS FROM SOME

WARSAW GAY PRI

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. 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. "We want to show that today diversy, mory rights means Europe that is open, Europe that is tolerant, " he said at a prs nference before the relatnships are not legally regnised Poland, and the untry already bans same-sex upl om adoptg are also obstacl facg transgenr people who seek to formalise their 's lg nservative natnalist Law and Jtice party (PiS) says that extendg marriage and adoptn to gay upl threatens tradnal fay stctur and is harmful for children.

THE GAY PRI EVENTS EUROPE WORTH TRAVELLG FOR 2022

The jot statement, signed by embassi om untri cludg the Uned Stat, Germany and Ukrae, exprsed “full support for members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex (LGBTQI+) muny Hungary and their rights to equaly and non-discrimatn. A law passed 2021, ostensibly to protect children om pedophilia, forbids the display of homosexual ntent to mors media, cludg televisn, films, advertisements and lerature.

LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS

On Friday, the US was among 38 embassi to issue a jot statement urgg EU-member Hungary to do more to rpect and protect the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex (LGBTQI+) muny. The largt gay pri para central Europe took place aga Warsaw for the first time two years after a panmic-duced break — and amid a backlash Poland and Hungary agast LGBT rights.

Thoands of people joed the march and were cheered on by others wavg rabow flags om their apartment that level of acceptance is not universal Poland, a heavily Catholic, largely nservative joyful and lorful celebratn was tged wh fear of what the future holds for the rights of gay men, lbians, bisexuals and transgenr people after setbacks first Rsia and now Hungary. “We’ve been through a very, very rough time, but at the same time we are gog out the streets and we are sayg we are stronger and we are not gog to give up, ” said Miroslawa Makuchowska, vice director of Campaign Agast Homophobia. It was banned twice s early years by a nservative mayor, Lech Kaczynski, who feared would promote homosexualy, and last year was nceled due to the ronavis the first event 2001, Polish society has bee largely more open on the issue of gay rights, shaped by EU membership and cultural fluenc om the year's para was smaller than the one 2019 due to some panmic rtrictns.

POLAND DECLAR ITSELF ‘LGBT FREE’ AS GAY PARAS TURN BLASPHEMO

Europe is set to explo wh LGBTQ+ energy this June as Gay Pri events kick off ci across the of the vibrant celebratns are returng after beg ncelled for two years nng amid the ronavis panmic. Followg the para, many participants will head to Via San Gvanni Laterano, dubbed Rome’s gay street, to ntue celebratg s many gay bars and clubs will host special events that extend the ftivi well to the night when the whole street normally be one big open air party.

Cologne Gay Pri is the biggt LGBTQ+ celebratn Germany and will beg mid June this events will last a ltle over two weeks and will clu sports tournaments, nferenc, readgs and lots of ma events will take place durg the first weekend of July. In a gture of solidary wh Ukrae, the participants of both events will march together Equaly Para, which has been held the pal sce 2001, is the largt gay pri para central Europe.

Many Ukraians are fleeg to Poland and Hungary, and activists say they will face particular challeng there, sce the European Unn has nmned both untri for havg anti-gay laws. In 2019, an opn poll found that almost a quarter of Polish people believe that homosexualy mt not be tolerated, and there are so-lled "LGBTQ-ee" zon across the untry.

WARSAW GAY PRI PARA BACK AFTER BACKLASH, PANMIC

Ambassador to Poland has bee embroiled the battle between ant homosexual mpaigners and tradnalist Catholics after tweetg her support for the gay lobby on Thursday, as anti-Catholic blasphemy by LGBT activists ntu to late before the fall general electns. Over 30 town uncils Poland clared themselv "ee om LGBT iology" after anti-Catholic LGBT paras blasphemed the Blsed Sacrament and the in of the Black Madonna and Warsaw's mayor signed a pro-LGBT claratn Febary llg for gay sex tn schools.

Hundreds of Catholic prottors attempted to halt an LGBT March of Equaly on June 18 at Jasna Góra, fearg that the pro-homosexual monstratn would va the shre of in of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa.

POLAND GAY PRI PARA DRAWS THOANDS

The LGBT marchers profaned the image of Our Lady of Częstochowa by pictg her wh a rabow for a halo and also rried banners bg the natnal symbol of the eagle wh the "gay pri" flag. Meanwhile, the lol uncil of Swidnik passed a motn to reject the spread of "LGBT iology" hom, schools and workplac, after Warsaw's mayor Rafał Trzaskowski issued his claratn promisg to teach primary school children about homosexualy along World Health Organizatn (WHO) guil. "We will not have accs to school for shock-seekers terted early sexualisatn of children; we will not pulate to polil rrectns (rightly lled homopropaganda), " wr the nservative newspaper Gazeta Polska.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The largt gay pri para central Europe took place aga Warsaw on Saturday for the first time two years after a panmic-duced break — and amid a backlash Poland and Hungary agast LGBT year’s Equaly Para me 20 years sce the event was first held the Polish pal. It was banned twice s early years by a nservative mayor who feared would promote homosexualy and last year was nceled due to the ronavis Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski walked at the head of the para a sign of support for LGBT rights, jog thoands who were cheered on by others wavg rabow flags om apartment balni and siwalk f.

But that level of acceptance is not universal Poland, a heavily Catholic, largely nservative joyful and lorful celebratn was tged wh fear of what the future holds for the rights of gay men, lbians, bisexuals and transgenr people after setbacks first Rsia and now Hungary.

GAY PRI GETS POLIL POLAND

” Among those who participated was Misza Czerniak, a 37-year-old mician who was born Rsia and emigrated to Poland 10 years ago part to flee the homophobia there. But at the same time, we are gog out the streets and we are sayg we are stronger and we are not gog to give up, ” said Miroslawa Makuchowska, vice director of Campaign Agast Homophobia.

LGBTQ+ KRAKóW | GAY & GAY-FRIENDLY GUI TO KRAKóW

WARSAW, Poland -- The largt gay pri para central and eastern Europe brought thoands of people to the streets of Warsaw on Saturday at a time when Poland's LGBT rights movement is the target of a ernment mpaign pictg as a threat. And on the eve of the para, a far-right journalist on public televisn, Rafal Ziemkiewicz, sent chills down the sp of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny. PŁOCK, Poland — Two months before Poland’s parliamentary electn, LGBT issu have soared to the top of the polil agenda, which is why the three lears of a newly formed left-wg polil alliance were marchg a gay pri para Saturday the central cy of Płock.

Many of Poland’s MPs, cludg then Prime Mister and current European Council Print Donald Tk, lghed at the openly gay Biedroń as he livered his first speech to the Polish parliament after wng a seat 2011. But ahead of the October 13 electn, Law and Jtice (PiS) policians together wh senr clerics om the powerful Roman Catholic church, have unleashed a seri of verbal attacks agast gay people — accg them of promotg an iology alien and dangero to Poland. “They are people who want to impose thgs on — strange iologi we don’t agree wh, ” said Jarek Krajewski, a Płock lol who showed up toward the end of the para wavg an enormo banner wh a sword on readg: “Homopropaganda is a 21st century disease.

“I’m a member of PiS and I thk that the party has been much too d toward this kd of thg, ” said Kazimierz Cieślik, a pensner leang on his walker and watchg the gay pri march wh distaste. A recent survey for the Rzeczpospola newspaper found that 46 percent of Pol are agast civil partnerships for gays, 56 percent are agast gay marriage and 76 percent agast gay upl adoptg children. Although 's one of the few untri which homosexualy has never been directly punished by state law, you'll fd few folks of any sexual persuasn who would scribe Poland as 'gay-iendly.

IN CONSERVATIVE POLAND, GAY PRI PARAS AND RABOW ART

' Centuri of hard-re Catholicism Poland have ensured a nservative society that isn't fortable speakg about sex of any kd, let alone homosexualy, which is roundly nsired 'wrong' and 'unnatural' by most lols.

In fact, homosexualy was officially listed as a disease until 1991, before which the munist thori alt wh the 'problem' by nyg that existed PRL Poland; serly, acrdg to the thori, there was not a sgle gay person PL om 1947 to 1989.

FILE:GAY PRI FLAG OF

In the years sce mocracy returned to Poland, policians have been all too eager to go on rerd agast homosexualy, makg all kds of flammatory statements rangg om ignorant to sensive to hateful over the years. The current nservative lg party, Law & Jtice (PiS), has been particularly forceful s nmnatn of homosexualy recently, attemptg to ame gay rights and the equaly movement as a foreign vasn threateng the very soul of the natn (much like the immigratn crisis before ).

" Puttg gay rights issu, and thereby the gay muny, directly the crosshairs, Kaczyński's party has gone so far as to anise and promote s own anti-LGBT events unr the guise of 'fay valu', leadg to vlent nflict when the two sis lli, as occured May 2019 Białystock. In terms of queer nightlife, the number of tly queer-first venu Kraków is still que small, and only got smaller the summer of 2019, when Con - Kraków's top gay club of over 18 years - closed down for good.

Although several municipali (particularly south-eastern PL) clared themselv ee of LGBT iology, a urt lg later banned the distributn of the hate stickers, and the outcry they created here Kraków only lead to many gay-iendly lol bs explicly claimg they were plac of tolerance via their own stickers, posters and flags. For those lookg for a fun, safe environment to go out whout alienatg their straight iends, Barakah, Klub Kabaret and Ogniwo que often host events anised by or support of the queer muny; Lastriko, Movida and Kraa Szeptów (Land of Whispers) tgle the gay-dar at low equenci; while Eszeweria (owned and operated by a gay uple), Piękny Pi, Fom, Pza, Cafe Szafe and Klub Re n all generally be nsired safe spac for diversy and acceptance.

POLAND: GAY PRI PARA IS ATTACKED KRAKóW

Homosexualy was long a taboo Poland, though views have changed recent years, wh Pol 2011 makg history by electg an openly gay man and a transsexual woman to the natnal parliament. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Ukrae’s largt LGBTQ rights event, KyivPri, went ahead Saturday, although not on s native streets or as a to Rsia’s war Ukrae, the event normally held Kyiv took place njunctn wh Warsaw’s yearly Equaly Para, the largt gay pri event Central Europe, wh Ukraian anizers g as a platform to keep ternatnal attentn foced on their untry’s 300 people traveled om Ukrae to the Polish pal, now home to a quarter ln Ukraians who fled the war. ” 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.

(AP Photo/Michal Dyj)via Associated PrsThe Ukraian civilians and soldiers killed by Rsian forc durg the four-month-old war clu lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.

”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. ”Poland’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 Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, om a liberal opposn party, joed Saturday’s para march as he do each year, joed by the European Unn’s missner for equaly, Hanna said the KyivPri anizers had nsired holdg their event other European pals but cid that Warsaw’s young and energetic rights movement was a better people Ukrae still face nsirable discrimatn, but they have ma stris recent years as the untry has sought to tie s fate to the Wt. Ukraian Print Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose urageo wartime learship has gaed worldwi attentn, won the rpect of LGBTQ people Ukrae when a man wearg a cross and spoutg homophobic rhetoric heckled him at a news nference 2019.

GAY PARA WARSAW MEETS JEERS FROM SOME

WARSAW, Poland — The pals of Poland and Romania hosted ftive gay pri paras that attracted thoands of people Saturday, as embolned participants vowed to keep phg for the eventual eedom to marry the person of their choice.

Participants of a gay pri para walk through the streets of Warsaw on Skarzynski / AFP - Getty ImagIn the Romanian pal of Buchart, the rights of same-sex upl also took center stage durg a gay pri para that me days after a major lg a marriage European Court of Jtice Luxembourg led Tuday that two men — one Romanian, the other Amerin — are entled to the same rincy rights as other married upl the European the lg don’t oblige dividual EU member untri to legalize same-sex marriag, uld prage lgs other pendg s that LGBT rights advot would nsir favorable.

Romanians who nsir homosexualy to be a threat to society rallied Buchart before Saturday’s gay pri Right movement lear Tudor Ioncu said the para was “a disgrace, a slap on the cheek of a Christian pal.