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Added on: 06/29/2020

Poland election: Duda forced into second round against liberal challenger

06/28/2020

The incumbent Andrzej Duda won the most votes in Sunday’s Polish presidential election, but fell short of the 50% he needed to win without a second round…

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Added on: 06/27/2020

Poland casts its vote as a nation divided. But can the election deliver true change?

06/25/2020

It’s been Poland’s strangest presidential election campaign in living memory. Granted, it’s the first that’s taken place during a pandemic, but in the last three months the…

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Added on: 06/25/2020

Trump to meet Polish president known for anti-LGBTQ rhetoric

06/24/2020

US President Donald Trump is facing criticism for hosting Poland’s president at the White House days before his visitor faces a tougher than expected fight for re-election….

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Added on: 06/21/2020

Poles run for LGBT equality ahead of presidential vote

06/20/2020

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…

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Added on: 06/18/2020

Poland’s Jewish leaders deplore stigmatization of LGBTQ people

06/17/2020

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)…

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Added on: 06/17/2020

How globalisation has transformed the fight for LGBTQ+ rights

06/16/2020

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…

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Added on: 06/16/2020

LGBT activists protest at Polish president’s campaign rally

06/15/2020

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…

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Added on: 06/14/2020

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

06/13/2020

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…

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Added on: 06/11/2020

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

06/10/2020

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…

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Added on: 06/10/2020

Polish government finances LGBT-critical articles

06/08/2020

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…

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Added on: 06/08/2020

Gay couple feature in TV commercial in a first for Poland

06/07/2020

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…

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Added on: 06/01/2020

Liberal mayor’s entry revs Polish presidential race

05/31/2020

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…

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Added on: 05/27/2020

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

05/26/2020

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…

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Added on: 05/08/2020

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

05/07/2020

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…

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Added on: 04/28/2020

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

04/27/2020

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…

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Added on: 04/23/2020

Towards an “LGBT-Free” Poland?

04/22/2020

In the years following the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the Third Polish Republic quickly rose as one of the most promising democracies…

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Added on: 04/20/2020

Gay couple in Poland take on LGBT+ Free Zones with rainbow face masks

04/19/2020

Married YouTubers Jakub and Dawid Mycek-Kwiecinski handed out hundreds of rainbow face masks on the streets. It comes as Poland considers a new ‘Stop Pedophilia’ law. The…

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Added on: 04/18/2020

Polish lawmakers press on with anti-gay ‘Stop Pedophilia’ law

04/17/2020

Polish lawmakers have voted not to kill a law that compares LGBT+ people to pedophiles and which could end sex education. Poland’s anti-LGBT+ Law and Justice Party…

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Added on: 04/16/2020

Poland mulls law denouncing sex educators as paedophiles and gay activists

04/15/2020

Poland is set to vote on Thursday on a law that would jail people who promote underage sex for up to three years, in a move which…

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Added on: 04/14/2020

Poland: Reject New Curbs on Abortion, Sex Ed

04/13/2020

Poland’s Parliament will consider regressive legislation this week that would restrict sexual and reproductive health and rights and put the lives and well-being of women and adolescents…

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Added on: 03/27/2020

The fight against Poland’s ‘LGBT free zones’

03/21/2020

New laws are being passed across Poland taking aim at the LGBT community. They’ve been called “LGBT free zones” as a shorthand. While they don’t necessarily mean…

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Added on: 03/06/2020

This ‘gay, atheist, leftist’ is taking on Poland’s right-wing government — by running for president

03/05/2020

When Robert Biedron showed up in this historic city’s main square to lead a rally in his bid to be president, he was bracing for a fight…

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Added on: 03/06/2020

POLISH ACTIVISTS FACE LEGAL ACTION OVER ‘ATLAS OF HATE’

03/05/2020

Several Polish municipalities have announced that they plan to sue a group of activists who created an “Atlas of Hate” map, depicting municipalities covering one-third of the…

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Added on: 03/02/2020

Polish LGBT activists protest at Warsaw church against Catholic archbishop

03/01/2020

Several dozen activists protested in front of a Warsaw church guarded by police on Sunday as a Catholic archbishop, criticized for his anti-LGBT language, celebrated mass. Last…

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Added on: 02/29/2020

Chechen exile survives suspected assassination attempt after fighting off attacker

02/28/2020

A prominent Chechen blogger and critic of the region’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov has survived a suspected assassination attempt after fighting off a man he said attacked him…

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Added on: 02/25/2020

A THIRD OF POLAND DECLARED ‘LGBT-FREE ZONE’

02/24/2020

Local municipalities across a third of Poland have adopted resolutions “against LGBT propaganda” or “pro-family”, creating what rights groups describe as hostile spaces for anyone who is…

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Added on: 02/22/2020

Polish court says campaign that linked homosexuality and paedophilia was “informative”

02/21/2020

A Polish court has ruled in favour of a campaign that linked homosexuality and paedophilia, claiming it was “informative” and that it raised awareness. Polish lawyer, Bartłomiej…

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Added on: 02/18/2020

French town suspends ties with Polish twin city over LGBT rights

02/17/2020

A Polish mayor on Monday deplored the decision by a sister town in France to suspend 25-year official ties with her town because it declared itself an…

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Added on: 02/08/2020

Activist aims to shame Polish towns opposed to LGBT community

02/07/2020

An activist has begun photographing members of Poland’s LGBT community next to a fake “LGBT-free zone” sign outside towns that passed motions rejecting what they call “LGBT…

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Added on: 02/04/2020

Rising populism stokes homophobic hate speech across Europe

02/02/2020

Homophobic and transphobic rhetoric and other anti-LGBT+ hate crimes are rising across Europe, fuelled by divisive politics and socially conservative groups that also campaign against abortion access,…