UK campaign targets LGBT-free zones in Polish twin towns
In recent years, Polish towns have drawn international condemnation for passing charters denouncing LGBT+ ideology. Now, a UK campaign is pushing back.
Polish flags fly in London s Leicester Square during Pride 2018
Angry, young and desperate to express himself. This was how Jarek Kubiak felt when he left his Polish hometown of Lodz in 2006 to begin a new life as a gay man in the UK.
Living in London, Kubiak avoided Polish people because he wanted to forget his closeted life back home. I didn’t want to keep that Polishness in me, he told DW.