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Protesters at the protests in Warsaw
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Hundreds of people protested in Poland's capital Warsaw against a planned ban on demonstrations for lesbians and gays. At least 300 people gathered in front of parliament early Thursday evening, as the daily newspaper "Gazeta Wyborcza" reported. Many participants waved rainbow flags. On banners it said, for example, "Love knows no gender". Late in the evening, Parliament wanted to deliberate on the legislative proposal in a first reading.
Specifically, the law should in future prohibit demonstrators from questioning the marriage between men and women during actions, for example, and demanding that it be extended to people of the same sex.
In addition, according to the draft, demonstrations should not be used to promote the adoption of children by homosexual couples and a "sexual orientation other than heterosexual".
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This proposal is aimed primarily at the Pride Parade and other demonstrations by the LGBT community.
The abbreviation stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
The Life and Family Foundation brought the draft into parliament, which had collected the 140,000 necessary signatures.
The human rights organization Amnesty International appealed to the MPs not to agree.
You should acknowledge "that love is love".
This proposal is hateful, discriminatory and restricts people's right to peaceful protest.
"Such restrictions are not acceptable."
slü / dpa
