In Poland, simmering anti-LGBTQ sentiment boils over into violence
Jul 22, 2019 6:45 PM EDT
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A mob of right-wing Poles has attacked a pride march in the town of Bialystok, one of several areas declaring themselves to be LGBTQ-free. The incident represents the realization of the fears of the U.S. ambassador to Poland, Georgette Mosbacher, who worried a conservative Polish newspaper's pledge to distribute anti-gay stickers would stoke violence. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports.
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Amna Nawaz:
A wave of hostility towards LGBTQ people in Poland has alarmed officials and led the American ambassador there to denounce conservative Polish newspapers for stoking hatred in its campaign for so-called LGBT-free zones.
Those fears were realized this weekend, as a mob of right-wing Poles attacked a Pride March in the town of Bialystok, one of several districts that have declared themselves to be LGBT-free.
Read more at: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/in-poland-simmering-anti-lgbtq-sentiment-boils-over-into-violence
Actually, I've seen reporting on this in largely what is seen as the left-wing liberal press like BBC and this is PBS. I was letting it sit but that activist being killed in Moscow now, seems to make this story a bit more pertinent.
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,369431.0.htmlNot good, a Jewish cemetery in Poland also apparently recently vandalized:
https://jewishjournal.com/online/301899/historic-jewish-cemetery-in-poland-vandalized-a-month-after-rededication/ Sad, I haven't heard of this happening much in Poland, I know, in the past, they've had big soccer/football match brawls with hooligans and ultras. It sounds like a wall, the fence at the cemetery was painted with disrespectful bigoted graffiti, that's of course, wrong but it's certainly could have been worse.
