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 GAY PRI
- WARSAW GAY PRI PARA BACK AFTER BACKLASH, PANMIC
- WARSAW HOLDS GAY PRI PARA AMID FEARS AND THREATS POLAND
WARSAW GAY PRI
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. * gay pride warsaw *
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After a show anized one of Warsaw's now-funct gay clubs, a group of iends sprang up wh the ia of brgg a march agast discrimatn to Poland. 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.
WARSAW GAY PRI PARA BACK AFTER BACKLASH, PANMIC
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WARSAW HOLDS GAY PRI PARA AMID FEARS AND THREATS POLAND
Photograph: Wojtek Radwański/AFP/Getty ImagPolicians and clergy have been acced of stokg homophobia Poland. 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 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.