Poland’s first LGBTQ+ museum, which houses almost 150 artefacts offering a timeline of Poland’s LGBTQ movement’s struggle for recognition, opened its doors on Friday, December 6. Dubbed a landmark moment by a community still striving for full legal rights, the museum was set up by Polish LGBTQ+ rights group Lambda and is the first of […]
The Polish government has proposed a bill that aim to recognise same-sex partnerships, Equality Minister Katarzyna Kotula has announced. Despite years of pressure from LGBTQ+ rights groups and the European Union, the Catholic country currently draws the line at same-sex unions. “It’s official! The draft laws on registered partnerships, which were discussed with non-governmental organizations, […]
An LGBTQ+ rights activist in Poland said Tuesday that he believes it’s a “new beginning” in Poland after a host on state television apologised on air for the homophobic propaganda aired by state media in recent years. “It took me by surprise,” said Bart Staszewski, one of two activists invited on air Sunday evening when […]
After an eight-year ban, LGBTQ+ couples returned to Polish national TV on January 6. Among them was famous gay couple Jakub and Dawid. Jakub was fired from Telewizja Polska seven years ago because he was gay. Now waving a rainbow flag on air, he had a pleasure to announce: “Homophobia is over on Polish TV”. […]
Three LGBTQ+ activists have been sentenced for their role in an attack on a van used by a conservative group, Fundacja Pro, displaying images and slogans linking LGBTQ+ to paedophilia on the streets of Warsaw in June 2020.
Amnesty International has responded to what it calls a ‘witch-hunt’ against Polish LGBTQ+ activists after ‘Rainbow Halo’ case
Shocked by the plight of Poland’s LGBTQ+ community, London’s Zebra One Gallery and artist/activist Lapinus Morgan will launch the Love Is Not An Ideology (LINAI) exhibition on Tuesday, October 5, raising vital funds for the Polish charity Federacja Znaki Rownosci.
Podkarpackie, Lubelskie and Malopolskie have repealed declarations to oppose LGBTQ+ equality after the EU threatened to axe funding.
Lawmakers in Swietokrzyskie have voted unanimously to repeal 2019 regulations that declared the region an ‘LGBTQ+ free’ zone.
The EU has sent letters to five regional councils in Poland, urging them to discard their ‘LGBTQ+ free’ status or risk losing funding.
