The Polish government has appointed anti-LGBTQ+ university professor and MP Przemyslaw Czarnek as the new education minister.
The Polish government has appointed anti-LGBTQ+ university professor and MP Przemyslaw Czarnek as the new education minister.
Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki has blamed LGBTQ+ activist Bart Staszewski, who organised a protest against the country’s LGBTQ+ free zones, for the global backlash the Polish government has received regarding their treatment of the queer community.
Pawel Jablonski, Poland’s deputy foreign minister, has denied that the LGBTQ+ community are being persecuted in the country.
European Commission president Ursula Von Der Leyen has publicly condemned the creation of ‘LGBTQ+ free’ zones in Poland, saying they have no place in the EU.
