Poland's antigay twins.Gays in Poland have managed to win small civil rights gains in recent years, but that could come to an end now that a pair of identical twins identical twins pl.n. Twins derived from the same fertilized ovum that at an early stage of development becomes separated into independently growing cell aggregations, giving rise to two individuals of the same sex, identical genetic makeup, and known as "the ducks" are in charge. On October 23 the antigay Catholic mayor of Warsaw Warsaw (wôr`sô), Pol. Warszawa, city (1993 est. pop. 1,655,700), capital of Poland and of Mazowieckie prov., central Poland, on both banks of the Vistula River. , Lech Lech (lĕkh), river, c.175 mi (280 km) long, rising in Vorarlberg, W Austria, and flowing NE into S Germany past Augsburg to the Danube River. The Wertach River is its chief tributary. Kaczynski, won the presidential election in Poland. A month earlier Kaczynskrs conservative Law and Justice Party, headed by his twin brother, Jaroslaw, won a majority of seats in the nation's parliament. The results set up a dramatic shift to the right for a country already dominated by the Catholic Church. "As you see by the results of the elections, antigay declarations still win popularity in this country," said Robert Biedron, 29, founder and president of the Polish gay rights group Campaign Against Homophobia Campaign Against Homophobia (original name: Kampania Przeciw Homofobii, abbreviation: KPH) is a Polish LGBT organisation, which aims to promote legal and social equality for people outside the heteronorm. . Indeed, during the campaigns the twins publicly denounced homosexuality, including calling for gays to be barred from teaching. As mayor of Warsaw, Lech Kaczynski twice banned a gay pride parade A gay pride parade or LGBT pride parade is part of a festival or ceremony held by the LGBT community of a city to commemorate the struggle for LGBT rights and pride. in the city. "The ducks" are widely known in Poland as the former child stars of the 1962 movie Two Who Stole the Moon. |
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