Polish province overturns ‘LGBT ideology free zone’
By DW
24 September 2021 |
11:50 am
A province in southern Poland near Krakow has overturned its symbolic anti-LGBTQ designation. The EU held up recovery funds because of the discriminatory declaration.
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