A city in the Netherlands cut long-standing ties to its twin across the border in Poland, which was recently established as an official “gay-free zone”.
The Nieuwegein city council, a municipality in the Dutch province of Utrecht, voted 26-1 to “detach” and cut off contact with Puławy in the province of Lublin, southeast Poland, The Guardian reported.
Councilman Marieke Schouten celebrated the ruling by covering the Polish city’s name on Nieuwegein’s entrance signs with a rainbow LGBTQ pride flag, according to the Evening Standard.
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(Courtesy of Nieuwegein Municipality)
“This is a statement. Gay-free zones are not ready. Everyone is welcome in our city, ”he told RTV. “It doesn’t matter who you are, what skin color you have, what you believe in or what your sexual orientation is. If you have a friendship with a city where it is not allowed, we have good reason to tell you that we are concerned about what is happening there. ”
Polish President Andrzej Duda, who briefly won a second five-year term last week, has come under fire from the European Union for denouncing gay rights and the LGBTQ movement as a “foreign ideology” worse than communism throughout your campaign.
According to The Guardian, around 100 municipal and local governments in Poland have declared themselves “gay-free zones” as part of the law and justice efforts of the right-wing ruling party to preserve conservative family values. The party advocates against gay marriage and allows children to be adopted by LGBTQ couples.
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LGBTQ activists have drawn a map called “Atlas of Hate”, which shows that “an area larger than the size of Hungary” has declared itself a gay-free zone in Poland.
