by Beth Holmes | Jan 11, 2023 | Equality, Homophobia, International, News, Power LGBT
The Black Eyed Peas play in Poland for New Year’s Eve, in a show of solidarity for the LGBT community. Poland’s relationship with its LGBT citizenry is rocky. While LGBT people have many legal rights and have since 1932, those rights are being eroded under...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 17, 2022 | Civil Rights, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Religion
A Polish court has upheld the acquittal of three women accused of “offending religious beliefs” over LGBT posters. In Poland’s penal code, Article 196 states that “publicly outraging an object or place of religious worship” in such a way that it “offends” anyone...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 5, 2021 | Civil Rights, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Religion
So-called LGBT-Free zones were repealed by vote in four major regions of Poland this week, but don’t get too excited. In 2019, over 100 Polish regions passed anti-LGBT resolutions, many of them going so far as to declare themselves LGBT-Free zones. Most of the...
by admin | Mar 11, 2021 | Featured, International, LGBTQIA+, Politics
On Wednesday, March 10, members of the European Parliament sat to debate a motion that would see all of the European Union officially declared a “freedom zone” for LGBT people. The EU already protects LGBT rights with regards to discrimination in employment and...
by admin | Oct 9, 2020 | Equality, Featured, Gender, Homophobia, LGBTQIA+, Power LGBT
On September 25, the deputy leader of one of Hungary’s major political party stood on stage at a press conference and tore a children’s book page by page into confetti, calling it “filth” and “propaganda.” Why? Because it had a brown Snow White rescued by...
