Gay Poland: What's like?

Contents:

• GAY EN POLOGNE
• POLAND’S POPULISTS PICK A NEW TOP ENEMY: GAY PEOPLE
• WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … POLAND?
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TRóJ
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS STEGNA
• GAY ROWO
• GAY-PORN

GAY EN POLOGNE

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.

POLAND’S POPULISTS PICK A NEW TOP ENEMY: GAY PEOPLE

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. 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.

”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.

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.

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … POLAND?

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.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TRóJ

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. 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. ” 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.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS STEGNA

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. Mirosława Makuchowska, om the Campaign Agast Homophobia, says while such announcements are not legally bdg, they send a “disturbg msage” to the populatn.

GAY ROWO

As Biedron puts , “Polish people have long been surround by rmatn sayg that homosexualy is a disease that n e bra damage. ” A 2017 report by the Centre for Rearch on Prejudice of the Universy of Warsaw found that sce PiS entered ernment 2015, Polish populatn’s exposure to hate speech the media, cludg agast gay people, has creased by 25%. The report stat that hate speech is “particularly dangero for youth, ” who were found to e hate speech most often and whose “sensivy to homophobic statements” creased.

One member of Budapt Pri, which aniz pri events, Viktória Radványi, tells TIME that “ spe of the growg number of people jog equaly march, homophobia the ernment and the prs has creased over the past few months.

” Durg a Budapt fom on May 15 as part of the European electns mpaign, a Fisz member and Chair of the Natnal Assembly Laszlo Kover, said there was “no moral difference” between pedophil and gay upl adoptg children.

GAY-PORN

Biedron, who suffered four anti-gay physil asslts when he served as a Member of Parliament om 2011 to 2014, says “the distance between hate speech and hate crime is small. ” He believ the bt way to unteract anti-gay sentiment is to “expla to the public that who we’re talkg about when we talk about LGBT people. Le nombre d'anisatns LGBT gmente à un rythme rapi en raison l'gmentatn s personn ayant s orientatns sexuell homosexuell.

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Views on same-sex marriage or other legal regnnViews on same-sex upl' right to adoptAcceptance of homosexuals as neighbors? By The Numbers60% of Pol believe Poland should abolish the so-lled "LGBT-Free zon"33% of Pol believe Poland shouldn't abolish the so-lled "LGBT-Free zon"HistoryHomosexual activy Poland? However, several lol thori Poland have clared themselv "LGBT-ee zon", where "homopropaganda" and LGBT referenc tn have been prohibed.