Poland

LGBTI Rights in Poland


ADDED ON: 06/21/2020

Poles run for LGBT equality ahead of presidential vote

Around a hundred Poles took part in an “Equality Run” on Saturday, condemning discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community during a presidential election campaign where gay rights have…

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ADDED ON: 06/18/2020

Poland’s Jewish leaders deplore stigmatization of LGBTQ people

Jewish community leaders in Warsaw on Tuesday voiced their opposition to the “dehumanizing” language they say is being used against LGBTQ (lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender and queer) people in Poland’s presidential election…

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ADDED ON: 06/17/2020

How globalisation has transformed the fight for LGBTQ+ rights

Much progress has been made in attitudes towards sexual equality and gender identity – but in many places a dramatic backlash by conservative forces has followed. On a visit to Senegal in…

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ADDED ON: 06/16/2020

LGBT activists protest at Polish president’s campaign rally

About a hundred protesters held up banners at an election rally for the Polish president on Monday, after he said over the weekend that LGBT “ideology” was more destructive than communist doctrine,…

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ADDED ON: 06/14/2020

Polish election: Andrzej Duda says LGBT ‘ideology’ worse than communism

Polish President Andrzej Duda has called the promotion of LGBT rights an "ideology" more destructive than communism, in a campaign speech. He is an ally of the ruling nationalist Law and Justice…

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ADDED ON: 06/11/2020

Polish leader casts gays as the enemy in bid to revive campaign

Poland's president stepped up a political attack against the LGBT community, portraying gay people as enemies in a bid to jump-start his stalled campaign for a second term in this month's election.…

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ADDED ON: 06/10/2020

Polish government finances LGBT-critical articles

Poland’s justice ministry used taxpayer money for sponsored articles about the global persecution of Christians, and likening the LGBT rights campaign to Soviet-era communism, just as a new documentary about clerical sex…

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ADDED ON: 06/08/2020

Gay couple feature in TV commercial in a first for Poland

A gay couple is seen getting intimate in a new advert on Polish TV – believed to be the first time the country has seen a same-sex couple in a commercial. The…

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ADDED ON: 06/01/2020

Liberal mayor’s entry revs Polish presidential race

Childhood actor. Pro-democracy activist. Avid supporter of the European Union and LGBT rights. Warsaw's liberal mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski, made a late entry into Poland's presidential election and has quickly emerged as the…

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ADDED ON: 05/27/2020

A Polish gay couple took their rainbow face masks to an ‘LGBT-Free Zone’

Polish gay couple have taken their free rainbow face masks to the heart of one of the country’s ‘LGBT-Free Zones’. Towns and districts across Poland have declared themselves ‘LGBT-Free’ in the last…

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ADDED ON: 05/08/2020

Activists call on Tinley Park to show support for gay rights in Polish Sister City

Activists in Europe are calling on Tinley Park residents and village officials to show support for gay rights in a Sister City community in Poland. European rights groups want Tinley Park and…

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ADDED ON: 04/28/2020

POLAND IS AUSTRALIA’S ‘LOGICAL CONCLUSION’ OF EXCLUDING LGBTQI PEOPLE WITH RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION BILL

The ‘LGBTQI exclusion zones’ throughout Poland are the logical extension of excluding LGBTIQ people from public life through ‘religious freedom'. According to national lobby group Just-Equal’s spokesperson Brian Greig, the conservative push…

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