The Gay Enemy in Poland’s Culture War
The governing nationalist party says LGBT groups are a dangerous threat and it’s turning them into an election issue.
Participants of a gay pride parade walk through the streets of Warsaw on June 9, 2018.
Photographer: Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty Images
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When you’re the self-proclaimed defender of a nation’s Christian values in a morally bankrupt Europe, you see enemies everywhere.
Poland’s populist government has vilified European Union elites, Muslim refugees, the Germans and anyone questioning Poland’s role in World War II. Now the latest threat comes from homosexuals.