Poland Has Abolished Its Last “LGBTQ-Free Zone”

Poland has abolished its last “LGBTQ-free zone”.

Between 2019 and 2020, more than 100 towns in Poland — or about a third of the country — had declared themselves to be “LGBTQ-free zones”, or areas completely free of "LGBTQ ideology".

The zones were being pushed by the then-ruling far-right Law and Justice (PiS) party, which said it was promoting family values.

In September 2021, after the EU threatened to cut funding, four regions then became the first to revoke their declarations.

One of Poland’s top courts then also ruled in 2022 that that the zones violated the “dignity, honor, good name and closely related private life of a specific group of citizens” and ordered the regions to reverse their position.

In 2023, people in Poland proceeded to vote out the right-wing government after eight years, electing a center-right government.

Over time, this led to all of the regions to eventually withdraw their declarations, with Łańcut, a town in south-east Poland becoming the final holdout.

And on Thursday, April 24, Łańcut voted to revoke its “LGBTQ-free zone”, making all of Poland now a LGBTQ-friendly zone.

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