Tag: Warsaw
Violent protestors threw flash bombs, rocks & glass bottles at Pride marchers
Violent far-right protestors attacked a Pride parade with flash bombs, rocks, and glass bottles.
The city of Bialystok, Poland, was having its first Pride celebration on Saturday, and an estimated 1000 supporters marched. But over 4000 far-right counter-protestors showed up, shouting slogans like “God, honor, and motherland” and “Bialystok free of perverts.”
The counter-protestors threw objects at the Pride marchers.
Piotr Fijalkowski posted video of counter-protestors destroying a Pride flag and attacking police officers.
1/3Te 3 filmy dedykuję………(w domyśle bardzo obraźliwe) – @TomaszSakiewicz, @TomaszBrussy...
‘LGBT-FREE ZONE’ stickers for businesses will be distributed in Poland
A magazine in Poland is going to be distributing “LGBT-free zone” stickers to their readers. Gazeta Polska is a far-right nationalist weekly magazine in Poland that supports the Law and Justice Party, which is anti-LGBTQ and anti-immigrant.
The magazine said that it will be distributing stickers that say “LGBT-FREE ZONE” and show a rainbow flag with an “X” through it in next week’s issue.
Pavel Rabiej, deputy president of Warsaw and a centrist, said on Twitter that he would file a complaint...
Warsaw gets ‘unbreakable’ LGBT monument for Pride after vandalism
The capital of Poland has celebrated Pride with an “unbreakable” monument after the previous one was destroyed.
Before the Warsaw Equality Parade on Saturday, a new rainbow monument was unveiled at a busy intersection in the country’s capital, where a rainbow is formed by light bouncing off of water vapour, producing a holographic rainbow.
The monument is stationed at a busy intersection in the city on the site of a previous rainbow monument before it was repeatedly vandalised.
Organisers hope the rainbow...
NYC City Hall Refuses To Grant Gay Couple Divorce
Andrzej Gruszczynski and Wiktor Twarkowski wed in Manhattan in 2013.
A gay couple married in New York had to turn to the courts for a divorce after City Hall refused to end their marriage.
Polish couple Andrzej Gruszczynski and Wiktor Jerzy Twarkowskix tied the knot at the Manhattan marriage bureau in December 2013. The couple came to the Big Apple from Warsaw as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s “NYC I Do” campaign, which invited gay tourists to wed if they lived in...
Let’s help POLAND fight for equality!
Just as rainbow flags were burned during the national independance day celebration our team put all of our strenght to fight for equality.
Our crowdfunding campaign to finance the 2017 Equality Parade in Warsaw has just been launched!
The Equality Parade is an annual event dedicated to promoting acceptance, inclusiveness and diversity. It does not focus on LGBTQIA+ issues exclusively but advocates equal rights for all discriminated groups, such as people with disabilities, ethnic and religious minorities as well as animals....
