Andrzej Sebastian Duda (born 16 May 1972) is a Polish lawyer and politician who has served as president of Poland since 6 August 2015. Before becoming president, Andrzej Duda was a member of Polish Lower House (Sejm) from 2011 to 2014 and the European Parliament from 2014 to 2015.
Milicz becomes smallest town in Poland to host LGBTQ+ march: “History is happening here”
Milicz, a town of 11,000 people in Poland, has become the smallest in the country to host an LGBTQ+ equality march. Taking place on 22 May, it marked the first to ever take place in the town.
Speaking in Milicz’s market square, Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, a Member of the Sejm, said: “History is happening here, so remember this day.” “Change will not happen in the squares of the largest cities,” she added. “We already have Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław, where there have been equality marches for years.
But here, in Milicz, is a real change for equality, love and acceptance.” Myślmy, a local NGO, organised the event in Milicz and stated that only 100 or so people were expected to attend, though there ended up being two to three times that number, according to newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.
Among the town’s locals were politicians and activists, some of which travelled there in order to attend. The march in Milicz had a heavy police presence, which is fairly normal of all LGBTQ+ marches in the country.
