© Kuba Atys/Agencja Gazeta via REUTERSA pro-LGBT demonstrator waves a rainbow flag as Polish nationalists gather to protest against what they call "LGBT aggression" on Polish society, in Warsaw, Poland August 16, 2020.
The nationalists burnt a rainbow flag, while the LGBT activists painted one on the street. The groups shouted abuse at each other, separated by a line of several police vans and dozens of policemen.
The nationalists' gathering was organised by a far-right movement All-Poland Youth, whose former leader, Krzysztof Bosak, won nearly 7% in the first round of a presidential election in June.
"This is a toxic ideology, dangerous, revolutionary and radical," Bosak said in a speech during the gathering.
Gay rights were part of the most recent election campaign in Poland, a staunchly Catholic country, and the issue is still divisive.
President Andrzej Duda, an ally of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, won re-election in July. During the campaign he had compared what he called LGBT "ideology" to communist doctrine, sparking criticism at home and abroad.
Since then there have been numerous protests by LGBT activists in Warsaw, including a massive one earlier this month when several thousand people demanded the release of an LGBT activist accused of hanging rainbow banners over statues and damaging an anti-abortion campaigner's van.
Which rights they (LGBT) have not in Poland ? In Polish Constitution all citizens are equal, there is no a word about any privileges or any discrimination in accordance to sex or sexual orientation. Lefts are living in virtual reality and want to - like always - create artificial problem and do harm. Lefts gone too far and there is counter reaction. That's all.
Poland is one an only country in Europe where never (I repeat - NEVER) was penalization of homosexuality.Yes in that "staunchly Catholic country". Check in Net how situation was in law in West European states till 20 century. In Poland always was one principle: live and let live others theirs own way, but respect law ,don't do to others harm and respect morality.
To all Leftists from West Europe (especially from EU institutions) - first look at history of Yours states/homelands and what is "playing" now in Your "garden", then say something about rights and law in my Homeland.