Umpteenth rebound in this country which gives the impression of having gone mad.
It is no longer a surprise that the Polish state is plunging into real homophobia. Last Tuesday, the Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro, announced that a city which lost European funding after declaring itself "LGBT-free" will obtain financial support from Poland, we can read on the polityka site.
The latter said at a press conference: "We support a municipality which has pro-family ambitions, which promotes well-functioning families, and the fight against LGBT and gender ideology, which is encouraged by the European Commission. "Https://www.aufeminin.com / "We are trying to find out if there are other municipalities than those mentioned by the Equality Commissioner. If we find any, we will help them ", he added.
The city of Tuchow in the south of the country will thus receive some 57,000 euros from the budget of the Ministry of Justice.
Last July, the European Commission refused the town's twinning following its decree rejecting "LGBT ideology".
"The values and fundamental rights of the EU must be respected by Member States and public authorities. That is why six town-twinning requests involving Polish authorities which have adopted resolutions on 'LGBTI free zones' or "family rights" have been rejected, "tweeted Helena Dalli, European Commissioner for Equality.
Such a program made it possible to receive a subsidy of up to 25,000 euros.
Têtu magazine reports that since the European elections last year, around 100 Polish municipalities have declared themselves "without LGBT ideology", that is to say a third of the country.
But the country is not limited to this policy, dozens of personalities from the world of culture and academics have denounced in a forum the attacks and LGBTphobic acts in Poland.
Judith Butler, Édouard Louis, Isabelle Huppert and Pedro Almodovar asked the "Polish government to stop targeting sexual minorities, to stop supporting organizations that propagate homophobia and to hold to account those responsible for the illegal and violent arrests of August 7This appeal was published in the newspaper Le Monde, but also in the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza.
France condemns homophobic actions. On France Inter, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, spoke on the subject: "There are (…) areas in Poland, sometimes declared by municipalities, called 'LGBT free'. Shops, downtown areas where people have said that because of their sexual orientation are not welcome. It is obviously scandalous, frightening and it is within Europe that this is happening."
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