In my seri of terviews on how gay guys grew up all over the world, I chatted wh Patryk, a 19 year old about growg up gay Kedzierzyn-Kozle, Poland. I grew up a Catholic fay, Poland is…
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- GAY POLAND TRAVEL GUI
- WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … POLAND?
- GROWG UP GAY POLAND
- IS POLAND GAY-IENDLY? - POLAND FOM
GAY POLAND TRAVEL GUI
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. * gay in poland *
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAn 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 Mucha for The New York TimFor months, ernment misters spewed vic rhetoric about gay people. Tcks blasted anti-gay hate msag om loudspeakers on the streets of Poland’s ci.
Fally fed up wh an creasgly hostile environment for gay people Poland unr the erng Law and Jtice party, Marta Malachowska, a 31-year-old who works social media, cid to move to Berl wh her girliend December.
But now their numbers are beg add to by gay people fleeg an creasgly hostile environment Limowicz for The New York TimAcrdg to a 2020 survey by ILGA-Europe, an ternatnal gay rights anizatn, Poland now ranks as the most homophobic untry the European Unn.
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … POLAND?
Dozens of Polish towns have clared themselv ee of "LGBT iology". It means difficult choic for gay people livg them. * gay in poland *
Activists say that vlence agast gay people Poland surged last year, and clud s of physil vlence, sults and the stctn of is hard to know how many gay people there are Poland, or how many are leavg. And sce they are unable to form civil unns, gay upl are practilly visible official terms. ”But anecdotally, pecially wh the untry’s well-ted gay urban muni, there are many stori of young L.
”“When I found out gay marriage Spa had been legal sce 2005, knocked me off my feet, ” he said. ”Homosexualy has long been taboo Poland, where the Roman Catholic Church, which plays a proment role the untry’s social and polil life, has worked hand hand wh the ernment to promote a nservative way of church, which is particularly powerful ral areas, has adopted an actively hostile attu toward gay people. Dehnel, the wrer who moved to Berl last year, said was “the drivg force of hate” toward the gay muny.
GROWG UP GAY POLAND
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Rpondg to a requt for ment, the Catholic Church poted to an official document outlg s posn, statg that homosexual “clatns” did not nstute “moral guilt, ” but homosexual acts did. It cled to ment on hate speech employed by prits, and the accatn that they were ntributg to the general terratn of the safety of gay people Jedraszewski, Poland’s archbishop, has scribed L. Neher the ernment nor the print rpond to requts for April 2019 Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the chairman of the Law and Jtice party and Poland’s facto lear, lled homosexualy a “threat to Polish inty, to our natn, to s existence, and th to the Polish state.
”Tcks fund by ultranservative anizatns have roamed the untry, blarg slogans om speakers accg gay people of pedophilia. There have been creasg s of vlence durg pri march, and agast one cint a village southern Poland, a young gay man was harassed by neighbors hurlg homophobic abe at him, and one tried to poison his dog.
In March 2021, another gay man was verbally attacked and then stabbed for holdg hands wh his partner a gay person Poland, Mr. Iology, ” makg gay Pol feel unwele their own legal stat of L. In a bid to get re-elected last year, Print Andrzej Duda signed a draft law that would amend the Constutn to ban adoptns by gay Ms.
IS POLAND GAY-IENDLY? - POLAND FOM
Back 2005, gay rights activists had to fight to march Warsaw. It ranks 27 out of 28 European Unn stat when to equaly and non-discrimatn, acrdg to Rabow Europe, an anizatn lked to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn.
Anti-gay attacks are not nsired a hate crime by law. ” Acrdg to the Campaign Agast Homophobia, 12 percent of people who don’t intify as heterosexual are victims of physil vlence Poland, while around nety percent of cints go unreported, acrdg to the 2016 survey.
Neverthels, “attus towards the LGBTQ muny have e a long way” says Robert Biedron, who beme Poland’s first openly gay and atheistic polician when he me out 2011. He c the risg number of pri monstrators and the fact that he now endur far fewer anti-gay sults om policians and the media.