Poland

WARSAW, Poland — Polish prosecutors say they will not charge former President Lech Walesa with hate crimes for recent remarks deemed offensive to gays. [ Read more → ]

WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's first openly gay and transsexual lawmakers took seats on the front bench of Parliament Wednesday to protest hostile remarks by former President Lech Walesa. [ Read more → ]

WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's first gay and transgender lawmakers will sit on the front bench in Parliament this week in reaction to hostile remarks by former president Lech Walesa. [ Read more → ]

WARSAW, Poland — Lech Walesa, the Polish democracy icon and Nobel peace prize winner, has sparked outrage in Poland by saying that gays have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to "adjust to smaller things." [ Read more → ]

WARSAW, Poland — Poland's lawmakers have rejected three separate draft laws that were intended to give legal rights to unmarried and same-sex couples. [ Read more → ]

WARSAW, Poland -- Poland’s ruling center-right party, Platforma Obywatelska (PO), has announced that it plans to introduce legislation to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples. [ Read more → ]

Anna Grodzka is looking at the possibility of being the first transgender person to win a seat in the Polish Sejm (Parliament), after a new anti-clerical party stormed the national parliamentary elections winning an unprecedented third place finish. [ Read more → ]