A driver previously found guilty of defamation for driving a van with slogans linking homosexuality to paedophilia during a Polish city’s pride parade has had his sentence overturned on appeal. The judge in the case ruled that the messages displayed on his van are true. The incident in question took place in 2019, on the day of the first ever LGBT Equality Parade in Gorzów Wielkopolski, a city of 120,000 in western Poland. Just before the march began, a van appeared covered in slogans such as “Homosexuals much more often molest children”, “Stop the rainbow plague”, and “The LGBT lobby wants to teach 4-year-olds masturbation, 6-year-olds sexual consent, and 9-year-olds their first sexual experience and orgasm”.