Three regions in Poland have voted to cancel resolutions declaring themselves to be “LGBT-free zones.”With local authorities seeing pushes for gay rights as an affront to traditional Catholic family values, nearly 100 regions in Poland passed anti-LGBTQ resolutions in 2019, which the EU said violated discrimination laws. The European Commission later threatened to pull up to $150 million in funding for five local governments if they didn’t cancel the resolutions. In response, Podkarpackie, Lubelskie and Malopolskie scrapped their declarations on Monday. In an interview with BBC, Bart Staszewski, a Polish LGBTQ activist, praised the repeals while underscoring the need for further action. I mean, they don’t want to revoke the whole resolution, they just want to replace it with another one,” he said.

Source: MetroXpress September 29, 2021 14:01 UTC