withheld funding to some of the areas that had signed the declarations.In response to the growing number of local governments that had signed the documents, activists launched the Atlas of Hate: an interactive map showing areas that have signed the declarations, as well those that are considering, or ones have rejected them.Speaking to Euronews after he was nominated for the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize with his cofounders, Kamil Maczuga said things are going “in the wrong direction” in Poland regarding LGBT rights.“People are actually more against LGBT people because of what is said on public television, or [by] the local authorities,” he says.“We started to think something must be done to stop this” — and so the idea for the map.