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Added on: 04/30/2019

A Gay Atheist Plots to Save His Catholic Country

04/29/2019

A dozen Virgin Mary figurines decorate Robert Biedron’s office in Warsaw, picked from about 400 or so he’s gathered from across the world. Some show her smiling…

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Added on: 04/26/2019

How Poland’s attacks on LGBT rights strengthened the Polish LGBT movement

04/26/2019

In late February, the mayor of Warsaw issued a declaration combating discrimination against LGBT people by providing better sex education in schools and creating a city shelter…

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Added on: 04/25/2019

Polish leader: LGBT rights an import that threatens nation

04/24/2019

The chairman of Poland’s conservative ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has called the LGBT rights movement a foreign import that threatens the Polish nation. Kaczynski, Poland’s most important…

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Added on: 04/09/2019

Poland’s Populists Pick a New Top Enemy: Gay People

04/07/2019

Growing up in a small city in southern Poland, part of a religious family and conservative community, Maciej Gosniowski was told again and again that something was…

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Added on: 04/06/2019

Gay Artist Wants to Change Poland, Starting With One Village

04/04/2019

The Polish artist Daniel Rycharski sat in his childhood home recently and considered the idea of fitting in. In many ways, Poland is a highly polarized country….

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Added on: 03/24/2019

Gay politician Robert Biedron challenges Polish leaders on gay marriage

03/22/2019

Openly gay politician Robert Biedron is demanding the Polish government and president to recognise LGBT+ equality, including same-sex marriage. Biedron, a long-time LGBT+ campaigner who became Poland’s…

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Added on: 03/18/2019

Poland’s Ruling Chief Speaks Strongly Against LGBT Rights

03/16/2019

The leader of Poland’s right-wing ruling party used hostile language Saturday while speaking against rights for LGBT persons, a subject that has risen to prominence in his…

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Added on: 03/16/2019

Poland’s ruling party picks LGBT rights as election battlefront

03/15/2019

Poland’s ruling nationalist party aims to stem a decline in its popularity ahead of two key elections this year with warnings that opposition support for LGBT education…

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Added on: 03/13/2019

Poland’s ruling party launches attack on LGBT community at party convention

03/11/2019

Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) has launched an attack on gay rights as part of its election strategy ahead of European elections in May and…

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Added on: 03/06/2019

Rafał Trzaskowski: Warsaw Mayor Faces Backlash for Protecting LGBTI Rights

03/04/2019

Rafał Trzaskowski, the Mayor of Poland’s capital city, Warsaw, has received backlash after signing a declaration to protect LGBT+ rights. The declaration is the first ever LGBT+…

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Added on: 02/24/2019

Poland moves step closer to banning gay conversion therapy

02/22/2019

Politicians in Poland have submitted a draft bill to the Parliament which bans the use of gay conversion therapy. Lawmakers from the liberal Nowoczesna party drafted the…

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Added on: 02/17/2019

Gay Politician Makes His Own Political Party in Conservative Poland

02/19/2019

Robert Biedron, a gay and atheist politician, in Catholic, conservative Poland, has created his own progressive political party of young, urban members called the Spring party. Biedron,…

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Added on: 02/05/2019

Poland’s first openly gay mayor creates new party ‘Spring’

02/03/2019

Poland’s first openly gay politician founded a new progressive party on Sunday ahead of European and Polish elections this year. Robert Biedron, who named the party “Wiosna”…

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Added on: 01/16/2019

The murder of Gdansk mayor Paweł Adamowicz reflects Poland’s increasingly toxic political climate

01/15/2019

In 2017, a far-right youth organisation called All-Polish Youth issued a series of “political death certificates” announcing the demise of high-profile pro-European politicians. Among them was Paweł…

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Added on: 01/14/2019

Lithuania’s top court grants residence permits for same-sex foreign spouses

01/12/2019

Lithuania’s top court has ruled that foreign spouses of gay citizens must be granted residence permits. The Constitutional Court ruled that denying residency permits to the spouses…

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Added on: 01/05/2019

Life of a gay migrant: Racism exists in the LGBT community too

01/05/2019

Ireland may be known as the land of céad míle fáilte, but a report in the last months of 2018 suggests more needs to be done to…

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Added on: 12/08/2018

Hungary and Poland say no to LGBTIQ

12/08/2018

“A Europe that protects” is Austria’s motto for its presidency of the Council of the EU. But it couldn’t agree to protect everyone. Hungary and Poland on…

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Added on: 11/14/2018

Is Poland About to Issue a Russian-style ‘gay propaganda’ Ban?

11/12/2018

Polish president Andrzej Duda has said he would consider issuing a Russian-style “gay propaganda” law that would ban LGBTQ media, literature, and gatherings like Pride. The authoritarian leader told…

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Added on: 01/31/2018

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