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Poland prepares for EuroPride gay rights rally

13 July 2010, 16:47 CET
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(WARSAW) - Thousands of gay rights campaigners are expected to flock to the Polish capital Warsaw for a landmark European gay rights rally, city hall said Tuesday.

Saturday's "EuroPride" is the first to be held behind the former Iron Curtain, two decades after the collapse of communism and in the face of what campaigners say is entrenched prejudice against homosexuals in the region.

"Fifteen thousand people are set to participate in the event, according to an application presented to the authorities," Magdalena Lan from Warsaw city hall told AFP.

"Two counter-demonstrations have also been announced. The parade will be overseen by police, as required by the law," Lan added.

Last year's EuroPride was held in the Swiss city of Zurich.

This year's edition has sparked controversy in deeply-Catholic Poland -- where members of the gay community have long said they face intolerance, and openly homophobic remarks by politicians are far from rare.

"We started lobbying already in 2005 against all odds and amid a very unfriendly atmosphere towards gay rights in our country," said Adam Biskupiak of the Equality Foundation, the Polish group which is organising the rally.

Poland's late conservative president Lech Kaczynski -- who died in a plane crash in April -- banned a gay rights rally by local campaigners in 2005 when he was mayor of Warsaw.

He later fell foul of the European Court of Human Rights for that decision.

Subsequent rallies in Poland have gone ahead, with a heavy police presence to keep marchers and counter-demonstrators apart.

The rallies have been relatively low-key, missing the carnival floats and drag queens often seen at their western European editions, and instead focusing on basic rights issues.

Biskupiak said he regretted that Warsaw city hall had not been involved actively in organising the rally.

Campaigner Krzysztof Legierski told the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza that the main aim of Warsaw's EuroPride was to inform Poles about the gay community.


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Gay March

Posted by Denise Bouchard at 17 July 2010, 22:53 CET
Look at all the fruit cakes in one spot.

Gay March

Posted by Wayne Johnson at 18 July 2010, 03:02 CET
I can see one nut here too! Bigotry is NOT a family value. I suppose you were a big fan of Adolf too. Too bad. We rid the world of your hero. Your little Jesus will be next.

Poland's Gay march

Posted by Wayne Johnson at 18 July 2010, 02:59 CET
Well, what do you know about that! First, the Catholic Church molests the children so they are gay and then discriminates against them later on! What a bunch of TRASH! Any Catholic man who is gay and supports this trash is no better than a Jewish man who supports the holocaust! Poland is the largest exporter of child pornography in the world today, yet they speak out against the gays in their society? GIVE ME A BREAK!

Also, and if I may add: Jesus was raised in a time when child molestation was considered acceptable. There is AMPLE proof of this in the Roman records and those of other areas. At the VERY least, Jesus found it irrelavent enough to NOT include it in the Bible. At the VERY most, he participated. No person should raise their children to pray to such a morally corrupt person. No wonder why the Catholic Church STILL has not said that child molestation is wrong!

Poland's Gay march

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