Has anybody been keeping track of events in Poland?
The following i have untertaken to translate from a german gay magazine called DU&ICH:
´The chronology of events:
MAY 2004: In 2004 the extreme right-wing organisation "All-Polish Youth" attacked participants of a March of Tolerance For Homosexuals with eggs, stones and bottles. Two male demonstrators were hurt. The city-authorised march had to be broken up. The regional government of Kleinpolen had opposed the march in a resolution.
JUNE 2004: In Warsaw the city´s mayor Lech Kaczynski forbids for the first time the "Parade of Equality", which he had allowed in previous years.
NOVEMBER 2004: In Poznan, skinheads attack the town-authorised "March of Equality". The police only barely protected the demonstrators.
MAY 2004: The Krakow "March for Tolerance" is cancelled out of respect for the sadness of the Polish people at the death of Pope John Paul II.
JUNE 2005: The Warsaw city mayor again forbids the Parade of Equality from taking place. In contradiction to this, 2500 people take to the streets for the rights of gays and lesbians - led by the shadow government´s vice-president Izabella Jaruga-Nowacka, and the german Green Party candidate Claudia Roth. Kaczynski eventually accuses the police of preferring homosexuals, because they protected the illegal demo and attacked opposition. A week later he allows the right-wing-led "Parade of Normality" go ahead.
In front of a gay club in Katowice, an unknown assailant shoots a member of the "Campaign Against Homophobia" in the shoulder. A young lesbian was lucky that the bullet just missed her.
NOVEMBER 2005: The Poznan police brutally break up the "March for Equality", which took place on the United Nations Day of Tolerance, and was banned by city mayor Ryszard Grobelny. 68 of the approximately 400 participants were held under arrest for hours. Due to their participation in the forbidden demonstration, they were threatened with punishment of one month imprisonment and 1250 Euro fines. A week later at least 10 nation-wide Solidarity Demonstrations take place, to date the largest turnout for protest against the discrimination of gays and lesbians in Poland. The police - this time round - do not bother the 250 demonstrators in Poznan.´ Copyright DU&ICH January/February 2006. Translated by Alexander Ward.
How disgusting - and not one EU parliament member has said anything, or made any kind of action. The situation in Poland gets worse daily, and nobody says a word - especially not his Blessed Evilness Pope Ratzinger.
Sasha xxx
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