Poland: Legislature Rejects Domestic Partnership Bills
Poland’s lower parliamentary house has voted today to reject three separate draft laws which would have given legal rights to unmarried couples, effectively preventing same-sex couples from receiving...
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Poland: MP Opposes Mariage Equality – Gays Of No Use to Society
In today’s episode of stupid things bigots say, we have this gem from Pink News: A Polish citizen, Przemek Repetowicz, translated Pawlowicz’s speech during which she said: “After analysing proposals it...
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Poland: Filmmaker Wants Civil Partnerships for Gay/Lesbian Couples
Something positive for gay rights out of Poland (and yes, we know what a rarity that is) – a Polish filmmaker who was slapped down by a Member of Parliament for pushing civil partnerships spoke out...
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Poland: Ruling Party Holds Meeting on Civil Unions, Is Sharply Divided
Following the recent dust-up between a popular filmmaker and a Polish MP, the Prime Minister has called a meeting of the ruling Civic Platform party to discuss civil unions. The Warsaw Business Journal...
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Poland: Civil Partnership Bills Defeated
What is it with Europe this week? First Finland blocks a marriage equality bill in committee, and now Poland blocks not one but three civil partnership bills too. Pink News reports: Proposed...
View ArticlePoland: Seriously? Lech Walesa Wants Gays to Sit in the Back, or Behind a Wall
We did not expect this. Lech Walesa, hero of the Polish labor hero and human rights activist, thinks gays should be at the back of the bus. Well, almost. Gay Star News reports: According to Polskie...
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Poland: Gay, Trans Lawmakers Move to Front of Parliament; Walesa Refuses to...
Some updates in the Lech Walesa story – after he made his anti gay comments the other day, gay and trans lawmakers responded. Towleroad.com reports: Janusz Palikot, the leader of progressive party...
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Poland: New Poll Shows Poles Disagree With Walesa on Gays
Just last week, Activist and Former Polish President Lech Walesa said gays in parliament should have to sit in the back, or behind a wall, and claimed that 95% of Poles agreed with him. Not so fast, as...
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Poland: Prime Minister Gives Up on Civil Unions Bill, for Now
Progress on LGBT rights has slowed to a crawl, as PM Donald Tusk admits that opposition to the effort is just too strong to proceed at this time. Pink News reports: This week Mr Tusk said civil unions...
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France: Country Signed Agreements With Ten European Nations to Ban Gay...
from Google MapsFrance apparently has some long-standing agreements with ten other nations that bar French wedding officiants from marrying binational couples when one of the couple comes from those...
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