Thousands of people expected to join Central Europe's largest gay pride parade in Warsaw at a time that Poland is exhibiting divisions over the demand for LGBT rights.
WARSAW, Poland — The largest gay pride parade in central and Eastern Europe will bring thousands of people to the streets of Warsaw on Saturday, at a time when the LGBT rights movement in Poland is targeted by hate speech and a government campaign depicting it as a threat to families and society.
Poland will have a record number of 20 pride parades this year. In some cases even centrist and left-wing mayors have tried to ban them, usually citing security concerns. In a tweet, he said “one must shoot at LGBT” people, before adding “not in the literal sense of course — but these are not people of good will or defenders of anybody’s rights, a new mutation of Bolsheviks and Nazis.”
Hubert Sobecki, head of Love Does Not Exclude, an LGBT rights group that seeks marriage equality, said the situation is particularly frightening for those young people struggling with their sexual identity. He said some are afraid to come out and some straight kids are being bullied because they are perceived as gay.Last month a trans girl killed herself by jumping from a bridge in Warsaw. When a group went later with a rainbow flag to the bridge to honor her, they were assaulted.
Poland’s education minister, who was sworn in Tuesday, described the LGBT rights declaration as an attempt to groom children for pedophiles and said sex education is the responsibility of families only.
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