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After Going Free of L.G.B.T., a Polish Town Pays a Price – The New York Times

By Thomas A. Smith

KRASNIK, Poland When local councilors adopted a resolution two years ago declaring their small town in southeastern Poland free of L.G.B.T., the mayor didn t see much harm in what appeared to be a symbolic and legally pointless gesture.

Today, he s scrambling to contain the damage.

What initially seemed a cost-free sop to conservatives in the rural and religiously devout Polish borderlands next to Ukraine, the May 2019 decision has become a costly embarrassment for the town of Krasnik. It has jeopardized millions of dollars in foreign funding and, Mayor Wojciech Wilk said, turned our town into a synonym for homophobia, which he insisted was not accurate.

via www.nytimes.com