LGBT-free zone

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LGBT-free zones were municipalities and regions of Poland that had declared themselves unwelcoming of LGBTQ rights, in order to ban equality marches and other LGBTQ events. By June 2020, some 100 municipalities (map), as well as five voivodeships, encompassing a third of the country, had adopted resolutions characterised as "LGBT-free zones". On 6 February 2024, Warsaw's Voivodeship Administrative Court repealed the last document "against LGBT ideology" in Poland. By 24 April 2025, all anti-LGBTQ resolutions and all Local Government Family Rights Charters have been withdrawn or invalidated by court order. Most of the adopted resolutions were lobbied for by Ordo Iuris, a Catholic and ultra-conservative organisation. While unenforceable and primarily symbolic, the declarations represent an attempt to stigmatise LGBTQ people. The Economist considered the zones "a legally meaningless gimmick with the practical effect of declaring open season on gay people". In a December 2020 report, the Council...

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