What about the love?
All Inc!’s Berto from the PL1 team has conducted the interview that is hyperlinked at the bottom of this post — dziękuję Berto! I can perfectly remember this Amy Grant song from…
Abolition of LGBTQ+ zones
AllInc’s Justyna updates us on a recent legislative change in Poland — dziękuję Justyno! Local governments in Poland that adopted resolutions against ‘LGBT ideology’ in 2019 and 2020 are likely to start…
“Pride without prejudice”, plus a new initiative
AllInc!’s Justyna makes a double contribution to this blog — bardzo dziękuję Justyno! 11 June 2022 Equality Parade in Wrocław – we are going for equality The parade on June 11, 2022,…
Wolna Szkoła
As Polish parlament moves closer to passing the so-called “Lex Czarnek”, designed —in the name of protecting “the morality of children”— to increase governmental control of school curricula and, by implication, eliminate…
29 October 2021: a split Poland
Currently, Poland is a country of dissonance and many contradictions. Friday 29 October saw the Seym* pass the citizen’s legislative initiative “STOP LGBT”, promoted by Kaja Godek on behalf of the Życie…
“I am an optimist”
I am an optimist. I have to be an optimist. So let me tell you an optimistic story. Despite all the things that make our lives —the lives of LGBT+ people in…
Inside or outside Europe?
The events of early 1989, when the communist regime and the democratic opposition sat to negotiate, not only signalled the beginning of Poland’s transition process and triggered the fall of the Iron…
Fighting transphobia in Poland
Research shows that approximately 70% of LGBT people in Poland have experienced violence. Research also shows that transgender people are the most common victims. Lack of knowledge and proper sexual education contributes…