Warsaw has held s gay pri para after a panmic-duced break — and amid a backlash Poland and Hungary agast LGBT rights.
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- WARSAW HOLDS GAY PRI PARA AMID FEARS AND THREATS POLAND
- WARSAW GAY PRI PARA BACK AFTER BACKLASH, PANMIC
WARSAW HOLDS GAY PRI PARA AMID FEARS AND THREATS POLAND
The largt pri para Central and Eastern Europe as a ernment mpaign picts the gay rights movement Poland as a threat to fai. * gay pride warsaw 2019 *
AdvertisementSKIP Skarzynski/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagJune 8, 2019WARSAW — The largt pri para central and Eastern Europe brought tens of thoands of people to the streets of Warsaw on Saturday, at a time when the gay rights movement Poland is unr siege by hate speech and a ernment mpaign pictg as a threat to fai and society. ”While many Pol Warsaw and other ci have grown creasgly supportive of the rights of lbians, gay men and bisexual and transgenr people, a backlash is unrway.
In some s, even centrist and left-wg mayors have tried to ban them, ually cg secury Law and Jtice lear, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, recently lled the gay rights movement a foreign import that threatens the natn’s inty. ”The head of the Campaign Agast Homophobia, Slava Melnyk, warned about the possible nsequenc of such provotive language. Trzaskowski, the Warsaw mayor, who is om the centrist opposn party Civic Platform, issued a rights claratn settg out the cy’s mment to try to help fd shelter for gay youths rejected by their parents.
Saturday’s march was one of 24 paras schled to take place this year Poland – a rerd number that mpaigners say is a reactn to the uptick of homophobic and transphobic language by Poland’s Catholic lears and PiS. “I thk the way that some policians of this party spoke publicly about LGBT[Q] issu ma other people Poland ls aaid to e hate speech, ” lol gay rights activist Joanna Glzek, 28, who -anized Bialystok’s march told CNN.
WARSAW GAY PRI PARA BACK AFTER BACKLASH, PANMIC
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 pride warsaw 2019 *
“All the signs are showg that Kaczynski will ntue wh the spegoat strategy, which go hand--hand wh the Polish Catholic church that has ma the LGBTQ muny s biggt enemy, ” said Miroslawa Makuchowska, head of the polil divisn of the Polish advocy group Campaign Agast Homophobia. The Warsaw-based nonprof Campaign Agast Homophobia (KPH) told CNN that more than 30 uncils had clared themselv ee of “LGBT iology” the past few months – rponse to Warsaw’s liberal mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, om the opposn Civic Platform (PO), signg a claratn support of LGBTQ rights.