A vast homophobic movement currently crossing Poland. More and more local authorities, in particular in the south-east of the country, declare themselves “zone without LGBT ideology“. If they are for now only statements of principle, they remain incredibly worrying.

These “zones” undertake, for example, not to return aid to NGOs committed to equal rights, and in general not to take or support any measure in the direction of this equality. This movement was encouraged by the very conservative party close to the Church Law and Justice (PiS).

In power since 2015 and re-elected in July 2020, Polish President Andrzej Duda is a member of the PiS. During his campaign, he claimed that LGBT + people were not people but “an ideology comparable to a kind of neo-Bolshevism».

European concern

The resurgence of homophobia in the country worries the European Union, which has taken measures against several cities having declared themselves “areas without LGBT ideology“. Six of them were rejected from a process of twinning with other European municipalities.

«The fundamental rights and values ​​of the EU must be respected by the Member States and the authorities.Helena Dalli, the European Commissioner for Equality, said on Twitter. European Commission spokesman Adalbert Jahnz, however, said he could not reveal the names of these municipalities.

The twinning program in question allows you to link an institution with “at least two international leaders in a similar field“. It is accompanied by an endowment of up to 25,000 euros.

In mid-July, Nieuwegein, a Dutch town not far from Utrecht, had ended his match with the Polish municipality of Pulawy, which had proclaimed its rejection of the “LGBT ideology».

Source: Slate.fr by www.slate.fr.

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