• 17/03/2023
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Polish gays are looking for a lost paradise in Berlin, it is a refuge for them from home homophobiaNewsTiscali.cz<

When the Polish Conservative politicians began to talk in the election campaign a speech against sexual minorities (LGBT+), Piotr Kalwaryjski of Poznan concluded that it was time to pack and leave.Several weeks after the European Parliament elections in 2019 he and his partner moved to Berlin.He joined the growing number of Poles from the LGBT+community, who fled from homophobia in his homeland and settled in the German metropolis, writes the Thomson Reuters Foundation Foundation.

"It was the first time they began to use homophobic rhetoric so openly," says a 27 -year -old man who works in technology."I knew Poland is not a land friendly country, but in larger cities you could be a gay.However, this was too much, ”adds Kalwaryjski.

Poland is in the legal protection of sexual minorities according to the NGO Ilga-Europe is on the tail of the European 27.Dozens of local authorities across the country issued a statement in which the territories of their municipalities described as zones without the ideology of LGBT, which caused international criticism and also the risk of loss of finances from the European Union.

Základ volební kampaně

The rights of gays, lesbians of bisexuals and transgender Poles found themselves under pressure since the conservatively nationalist party law and justice (PIS) came to power.The last drop for some people from the LGBT+ community has become an election campaign in 2019.

”For the right -wing side that is in power, the people (from the community) are LGBT+ ideologies.We are not human beings, we are not normal.They have made us our public enemy, ”says Fifi Kuncewicz, who is referred to as non -coal, neither man nor woman."I am in greater safety than in Poland," he adds to Berlin, where he has lived since October 2019 and has been working there for a social media society.

At a time when young qualified workers such as Kuncewicz or Kalwaryjski are leaving, there are warnings that homophobic policy and discrimination causes in countries such as Poland, Hungary or Ukraine "brain outflow" and economic losses.

Thirty -one -year -old Marta Malachowska, who also feeds on social media and moved to Berlin last December, says she began to be afraid to hold her partner because of the rhetoric of politicians."At a time when we began to hear the government to call homophobic speech, we also began to notice violent attitudes in society," says Malachowska.In Berlin, according to her, "no one cares about who you live with, who you love - no one is anything.”

Vstřícnost a možnost manželství

The number of reported crimes from hate against the LGBT+ community in Poland more than doubled in 2019, the authorities registered 150.Their actual number will probably be higher due to the widespread disgust homophobic attacks report.The EU survey in 2020 showed that only 16 percent of Poles belonging to sexual minorities reported to the police that they had become the target of a homophobic attack. „Lidé (z komunity) LGBT+ se je policii bojí hlásit,” tvrdí Lidka Makowská z Gdaňsku, která se zaměřuje na vzdělávání v oblasti lidských práv.

Many of the Poles who moved to Berlin because of sexual orientation said the main attraction was the helpfulness of the city towards sexual minorities.Although even the German metropolis did not avoid an increase in hate crimes directed against the LGBT+ community by 36 percent.

The same sex couples, however.The city also offers a number of other attractions such as good job opportunities or established community of foreigners. „V porovnání s jinými evropskými metropolemi je celkem cenově dostupné,” tvrdí Dawid Mazur, jenž Polsko opustil v roce 2016 a po pobytu v Londýně se přestěhoval do Berlína. „V Londýně je také velká polská komunita, ale je tam mnohem dráž a brexit situaci neusnadnil,” srovnává Mazur. „A (Berlín) je blízko Polska: zabere mi to jen čtyři nebo pět hodin, abych mohl navštívit kamarády,” dodal.

Meanwhile, forty -year -old human rights activist Jakub Gawron is waiting for a lawsuit in Poland as he faces accusations of gossip because of his statements about the resolutions received by Polish cities.If the court finds him guilty, he will not have any other option than to leave the country.

Kalwaryjski already considers Berlin after two years.“For many Germans I am still a stranger and I will always be. Ale víte co? Je lepší se cítit tady jako cizinec, než být gay v Polsku,” uzavřel.

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