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Right-wingers on alert over ‘Rainbow Friday’ in Poland

24.10.2019 13:50
Polish right-wingers have sounded the alarm ahead of “Rainbow Friday,” an initiative encouraging school students to show solidarity with the LGBT community.
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“Parents Beware!” warned the front-page headline of Thursday’s right-wing Gazeta Polska Codziennie daily.

“It’s worth remembering,” the paper told readers in a news story, “that the vast majority of organisations supporting a battle for equality and tolerance are not aiming to protect young LGBT people, but to initiate a cultural revolution" in a predominantly Catholic country.

Gazeta Polska Codziennie said that parents should note what happened last year on "Rainbow Friday," an event organised by the Campaign Against Homophobia gay rights group. 

“Huge rainbow flags at school entrances, ‘educational’ materials showing sexual deviations as something joyful, controversial gadgets, and encouraging people to vote for politicians supporting the LGBT movement – that’s what Rainbow Friday looked like last year in over 200 Polish schools,” the paper said.

Meanwhile, the liberal Gazeta Wyborcza daily reported that Poland’s education ministry has encouraged students and teachers to visit cemeteries on Friday and tidy up graves ahead of All Saints' Day on November 1 and All Souls' Day on November 2.

On those days Poles traditionally flock to family graves to lay wreaths and light candles.

(pk/gs)

Source: Gazeta Polska Codziennie/Gazeta Wyborcza