This is what happens when homophobic bigotry isn't stopped when it surfaces!
Polish towns advocate ‘LGBT-free zones’ while the ruling party cheers them on
By Rick Noack July 19 at 11:20 AM
KIELCE, POLAND — Upbeat ’80s pop music accompanied about 1,000 rainbow-draped activists as they embarked on this city’s first-ever LGBT rights march last weekend. But the music could barely drown out the boos from bystanders.
The marchers proceeded past banners that compared gays to pedophiles. They pressed on in the face of counterprotesters making threatening gestures and Catholics praying on the sidewalks in silent protest.
The scene reflected a growing tension in this country — between a burgeoning rights movement and a conservative backlash. It’s a tension that the Polish ruling party has been accused of fueling and exploiting.
Ahead of parliamentary elections this fall, Law and Justice has thrown the full weight of its party apparatus behind a campaign that is marginalizing Poland’s LGBT community, its critics say.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/polands-right-wing-ruling-party-has-found-a-new-targetlgbt-ideology/2019/07/19/775f25c6-a4ad-11e9-a767-d7ab84aef3e9_story.html?utm_term=.0bf37be58f10&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
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