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“In five years I’ll be 50. I’ve been involved in LGBTQ human rights activism for 20 years,” he recounted.<\/p>\n

“So for a quarter of a century, basically nothing has changed for me in terms of legal progress… it takes away hope, it takes away the energy to act.”<\/p>\n

In Poland, same-sex couples cannot marry or register their partnerships and, due to the lack of legal recognition, face multiple hurdles.<\/p>\n

These range from the obligation to pay inheritance tax in case a partner dies to obstacles to visiting each other at the hospital.<\/p>\n

Szypula, who in 2024 suffered a massive stroke and is still in recovery, witnessed the problem first-hand.<\/p>\n

His partner was only allowed to his bedside after a formal permission was granted by Szypula’s mother.<\/p>\n

“But that’s not what adult life is about, when you’re in your forties and your mum decides whether your partner can visit you or not,” he said.<\/p>\n

‘No other way’<\/p>\n

Przemyslaw Walas, a Campaign Against Homophobia activist, said he stayed up late into the night, nervously monitoring the election results trickling in — but said Nawrocki’s win did not take him by surprise.<\/p>\n

“We know that LGBTQ community issues are not priority issues at all, in every election,” he said.<\/p>\n

Nawrocki said in a debate in May that “a marriage is obviously a relationship between a man and a woman” and added he could not “imagine a marriage between people of the same sex”.<\/p>\n

In April, he said that “the LGBT community cannot count on me to address their issues”.<\/p>\n

Walas voiced fear of the far-right being empowered by the election results and of reliving “the dark times” of rampant anti-LGBTQ hate speech all over again.<\/p>\n

“It’s quite terrifying but also I think it could be a signal, a spark, to mobilise again,” Walas said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warsaw (AFP) \u2013 <\/span> Polish abortion rights activist Justyna Wydrzynska fought back tears as she recounted learning that the nationalist candidate had won Sunday’s presidential election in Poland, which has a near-total abortion ban. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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