LGBT-free zone#Effects on LGBT residents

{{further|LGBT rights in the European Union#Member State laws on sexual orientation}}

{{see also|LGBT history in Poland}}

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In February 2019, Warsaw's liberal mayor Rafał Trzaskowski signed a declaration supporting LGBTQ rights,{{Cite news |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3022115/poland-war-over-gay-rights-pride-and-prejudice-election |title=Pride and prejudice: Poland at war over gay rights before vote |date=9 August 2019 |newspaper=South China Morning Post |access-date=19 August 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Ciobanu |first1=Claudia |date=26 June 2019 |title='Foreign Ideology': Poland's Populists Target LGBT Rights |url=https://balkaninsight.com/2019/06/26/save-the-children/ |website=Balkan Insight}} and announced his intention to follow World Health Organization guidelines and integrate LGBT issues into the Warsaw school system sex education curricula. Law and Justice (PiS) politicians objected to the program saying it would sexualize children.{{cite news |last1=Goclowski |first1=Marcin |last2=Wlodarczak-Semczuk |first2=Anna |date=21 May 2019 |title=Polish towns go 'LGBT free' ahead of bitter European election campaign |website=Reuters |url=https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-election-poland/polish-towns-go-lgbt-free-ahead-of-bitter-european-election-campaign-idUKKCN1SR0XV|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190521112252/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-election-poland/polish-towns-go-lgbt-free-ahead-of-bitter-european-election-campaign-idUKKCN1SR0XV|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 May 2019}} PiS party leader Jarosław Kaczyński responded to the declaration, calling LGBT rights "an import" that threatens Poland.{{Cite magazine |url=https://time.com/5619660/lgbt-rights-poland/ |title=Poland Is Holding Massive Pride Parades. But How Far Have LGBTQ Rights Really Come? |last=Roache |first=Madeline |date=July 3, 2019 |magazine=TIME |access-date=August 19, 2019}}

According to The Daily Telegraph, the declaration "enraged and galvanized" conservative politicians and conservative media in Poland, the "LGBT-free zone" declarations emerging as a reaction to the Warsaw declaration. The British newspaper further argues that the conservative establishment is fearful of a liberal transition that may erode the Catholic Church's power in Poland like the transition around the Irish Church. Decreasing Church attendance, rising secularization, and sexual abuse scandals have put pressure on the conservative position.

Two weeks prior to the 2019 European Parliament election, a documentary on child sex abuse in the Church, was released online. It was expected to hurt the Church-aligned PiS electorally, and was responded to by PiS leader Kaczyński speaking heatedly of the Polish nation and children as "being under attack by deviant foreign ideas", which led conservative voters to rally around PiS. According to feminist scholar Agnieszka Graff, "The attack on LGBT was triggered by the [Warsaw] Declaration, but that was just a welcome excuse", as PiS sought to woo the rural-traditional demographic and needed a scapegoat to replace migrants.

In the run-up to the 13 October 2019 Polish parliamentary election, the Law and Justice party focused on countering "LGBT ideology". In 2019, it rebuked the Warsaw mayor's pro-LGBTQ declaration as "an attack on the family and children" and stated that LGBTQ was an "imported" ideology.

In August 2019, the Archbishop of Kraków, Marek Jędraszewski, said "LGBT ideology" was like a "rainbow plague" in a sermon commemorating the Warsaw uprising.{{cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/e815df96-bb8f-11e9-89e2-41e555e96722 |title=Poland's ruling party fuels anti-LGBT sentiment ahead of elections |newspaper=Financial Times |date=11 August 2019}}{{cite news |url=https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/08/activists-warn-poland-s-lgbt-community-is-under-attack-the-cube?PageSpeed=noscript |title=Activists warn Poland's LGBT community is 'under attack' |website=Euronews |date=8 August 2019}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/justice/church-poland-continues-confrontation-lgbtq-community |title=Church in Poland continues confrontation with the LGBTQ community |last=Luxmoore |first=Jonathan |date=August 19, 2019 |website=National Catholic Reporter |access-date=August 19, 2019}} Not long after, a drag queen simulated Jędraszewski's murder on stage, stirring controversy.{{Cite web |url=https://www.rmf24.pl/fakty/polska/news-drag-queen-symulowal-zabojstwo-jedraszewskiego-kep-i-rpo-kom,nId,3148989 |title=Drag queen "symulował zabójstwo" Jędraszewskiego. KEP i RPO komentują kontrowersyjny występ |trans-title=Drag queen "simulated the murder" of Jędraszewski: KEP and RPO comment on the controversial performance |last=Bounaoui |first=Sara |date=August 14, 2019 |website=RMF24.pl |language=pl |access-date=August 20, 2019}}

{{As of|2019}}, being openly gay in Poland's small towns and rural areas "[takes] increasing physical and mental fortitude" due to the efforts of Polish authorities and the Catholic Church, according to The Daily Telegraph. Public perception, however, has been becoming more tolerant of gay people. The 41 percent of Poles surveyed in 2001 stating that "being gay wasn't normal and shouldn't be tolerated" dropped to 24 percent in 2017, and the 5 percent who said "being gay was normal" in 2001 had grown to 16 percent in 2017.

Anti-LGBT resolutions were passed by some Polish gminas (municipalities),{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/polands-right-wing-ruling-party-has-found-a-new-targetlgbt-ideology/2019/07/19/775f25c6-a4ad-11e9-a767-d7ab84aef3e9_story.html |title=Polish towns advocate 'LGBT-free' zones while the ruling party cheers them on |first=Rick |last=Noack |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=21 July 2019}} ([https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/poland-lgbt-free-zones-homophobia-hate-speech-law-justice-party-a9013551.html Reprint at The Independent]){{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/britain-s-other-new-leader-impeach-o-meter-mister-rogers-radical-theology-lgbt-free-zones-in-poland-more-1.5224060/why-lgbt-free-zones-are-on-the-rise-in-poland-1.5224067 |title=Why 'LGBT-free zones' are on the rise in Poland |website=CBC |date=27 July 2019}} powiats (counties), and voivodeships (provinces){{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/09/lgbtq-activists-poland-battle-growing-hostility-countrys-powerful/ |title=Polish ruling party whips up LGBTQ hatred ahead of elections amid 'gay-free' zones and Pride march attacks |first=Peter |last=Foster |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=9 August 2019}} who declared themselves free from "LGBT ideology" in reaction to the Warsaw Declaration.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/world/europe/gay-pride-march-poland-violence.html |title=Anti-Gay Brutality in a Polish Town Blamed on Poisonous Propaganda |first1=Marc |last1=Santora |first2=Joanna |last2=Berendt |date=27 July 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times}} While unenforceable, activists say the declared zones represent attempts to exclude the LGBT community and called the declarations "a statement saying that a specific kind of people is not welcome there."

The two documents declared by municipalities were a "Local Government Charter of The Rights of The Family",{{Cite web |url=https://v.fastcdn.co/u/ff8eca37/50262470-0-SKPR-commune-ENG.pdf |title=Local Government Charter of The Rights of The Family |website=Instytut Ordo Iuris}} and a "Resolution against LGBT ideology". Both of these documents were labelled in media as "declarations of LGBT-free zones",{{Cite web |url=https://en.zois-berlin.de/publications/zois-spotlight/polands-lgbt-free-zones-and-global-anti-gender-campaigns/?L=0 |title=Poland's LGBT-free zones and global anti-gender campaigns |first=Elżbieta |last=Korolczuk |date=8 April 2020 |website=Centre for East European and International Studies |access-date=2020-07-31 |archive-date=6 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006192357/https://en.zois-berlin.de/publications/zois-spotlight/polands-lgbt-free-zones-and-global-anti-gender-campaigns/?L=0 |url-status=dead }} but neither of them actually contain a statement of exclusion of LGBT people from any territory, activities or rights. The "Charter of Family Rights" focuses on family values in social policies and only refers to LGBT rights indirectly, such as by defining marriage as a relationship "between a man and a woman". The "Resolution against LGBT ideology" opposes an "ideology of the LGBT movement" and introducing sex education in line with WHO education standards and condemns political correctness.{{Cite web |url=https://umwl.bip.lubelskie.pl/upload/pliki//0stanowisko_w_sp._wprowadzenia_ideologii_LGBT_do_wspolnot_samorzadowych.pdf |title=Stanowisko w sp. wprowadzenia ideologii LGBT do wspolnot samorzadowych |trans-title=A statement concerning introduction of LGBT ideology into the local community |date=25 April 2019 |website=Sejmik of the Lublin Voivodeship |language=pl}} An interactive map of Poland marking all municipalities which accepted either one or both of these resolutions, with links to their original texts, is available online, under the titles "Atlas of Hate".{{Cite web |url=https://atlasnienawisci.pl/ |title=Atlas nienawiści |trans-title=Atlas of Hate |website=atlasnienawisci |language=pl |access-date=2020-07-31}}{{cite web|title=Atlas of Hate: Activists nominated for award for tracking 'LGBT-free zones' in Poland|author=Luke Hurst|work=Euronews|url=https://www.euronews.com/2020/09/29/atlas-of-hate-activists-nominated-for-award-for-tracking-lgbt-free-zones-in-poland|access-date=28 September 2021|date=30 September 2020}}

In August 2019, around 30 different local governments have accepted such resolutions, including four voivodeships in the south-east of the country:{{Cite news |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/poland/2019-08-07/new-threat-polands-sexual-minorities |title=The New Threat to Poland's Sexual Minorities |last=Figlerowicz |first=Marta |date=August 7, 2019 |work=Foreign Affairs |access-date=August 19, 2019 |issn=0015-7120}} Lesser Poland, Podkarpackie, Świętokrzyskie, and Lublin.{{cite news |url=http://krakow.wyborcza.pl/krakow/7,44425,25008005,krakowski-magistrat-odpowiada-na-homofobiczny-akt-gazety-polskiej.html |title=Krakowski magistrat odpowiada na homofobiczny akt "Gazety Polskiej" |trans-title=The Krakow municipality responds to the homophobic act of "Gazeta Polska" |language=pl |first=Angelika |last=Pitoń |newspaper=Gazeta Wyborcza |location=Krakow |date=19 July 2019}} The four Voivodeships form the "historically conservative" part of Poland.

In February 2020, local governments controlling a third of Poland officially declared themselves as "against "LGBT ideology" or passed "pro-family" Charters, pledging to refrain from encouraging tolerance or funding NGOs working for LGBT rights.{{Cite web|last=Powys Maurice|first=Emma|date=25 February 2020|title=A third of Poland has now been declared an 'LGBT-free zone', making intolerance official|url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/25/third-of-poland-lgbt-free-zone-atlas-of-hate-homophobia/|access-date=25 February 2020|website=PinkNews|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|date=2020-02-25|title=A Third of Poland Declared 'LGBT-Free Zone'|url=https://balkaninsight.com/2020/02/25/a-third-of-poland-declared-lgbt-free-zone/|access-date=2021-02-28|website=Balkan Insight|language=en-US}}

1. Lublin Voivodeship,{{cite web |title=Stanowisko Sejmiku Województwa Lubelskiego w sprawie wprowadzenia ideologii "LGBT" do wspólnot samorządowych |url=https://umwl.bip.lubelskie.pl/index.php?id=57&p1=szczegoly&p2=1382854 |date=2019-04-25 |website=Urząd Marszałkowski Województwa Lubelskiego w Lublinie |language=pl |access-date=2020-01-28}} revoked by the voivodeship council on 27 September 2021{{cite web| url = https://kurierlubelski.pl/lubelskie-ani-slowa-o-lgbt-jest-ochrona-podstawowych-praw-i-wolnosci/ar/c1-15823415 |language = pl |title=Lubelskie. Ani słowa o LGBT. Jest ochrona podstawowych praw i wolności |date = 27 September 2021 | access-date = 27 September 2021}}
2. Lesser Poland Voivodeship, revoked by the voivodeship council on 27 September 2021{{cite web| url = https://lifeinkrakow.pl/w-miescie/3341,sukces-demokratycznej-opozycji-sejmik-uchylil-deklaracje-anty-lgbt |language = pl |title=Sukces demokratycznej opozycji: Sejmik uchylił deklarację anty-LGBT | access-date = 27 September 2021}}
3. Podkarpackie Voivodeship,{{cite web |title=Uchwała Nr VIII/140/19 Sejmiku Województwa Podkarpackiego z dnia 27 maja 2019 r.w sprawie przyjęcia stanowiska Sejmiku Województwa Podkarpackiego wyrażającego sprzeciw wobec promocji i afirmacji ideologii tak zwanych ruchów LGBT (z ang. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) |url=http://www.bip.podkarpackie.pl/images/VI_kadencja/VIII19/140.pdf |date=2019-05-27 |website=Sejmiku Województwa Podkarpackiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-01-28}} revoked by the voivodeship council on 27 September 2021{{cite web| url = https://rzeszow.wyborcza.pl/rzeszow/7,34962,27620396,sejmik-podkarpacki-radni-odrzucili-uchwale-anty-lgbt.html |language = pl |title=Podkarpacie. Radni odrzucili uchwałę anty-LGBT. Przyjęli nową: "Region utrwalonej tolerancji" | access-date = 27 September 2021}}
4. Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, revoked by the voivodeship council on 22 September 2021{{cite web| url = https://noizz.pl/lgbt/swietokrzyskie-sejmik-wojewodzki-uchylil-uchwale-anty-lgbt/cxc7373 |language = pl |title=Świętokrzyskie nie jest już strefą wolną od LGBT. Sejmik uchylił uchwałę, kolejne to rozważą? |date = 23 September 2021 | access-date = 23 September 2021}}
5. Łódź Voivodeship,{{Cite web |title=Sejmik przyjął Samorządową Kartę Praw Rodzin |date=28 January 2020 |url=https://www.lodzkie.pl/strona-glowna/aktualnosci/sejmik-przyjął-samorządową-kartę-praw-rodzin |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Łódź Voivodeship |language=pl}} revoked by the voivodeship council on 28 September 2021

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1. Powiat białostocki,{{cite web |title=Uchwała nr IX/84/2019 Rady Powiatu Białostockiego z dnia 25 kwietnia 2019 r. w sprawie Karty LGBT i wychowania seksualnego w duchu ideologii gender |url=http://bip.st.bialystok.wrotapodlasia.pl/Rada_Pow/Rp_UchwalyR/uchwayradypowiaturok2019/uchway_podjte_na_iu_28_kwietnia_2019_r/uchwala-nr-ix842019-rady-powiatu-bialostockiego-z-dnia-25-kwietnia-2019-r-w-sprawie-karty-lgbt-i-wychowania-seksualnego-w-duchu-ideologii-gender.html |date=2019-04-25 |website=Rady Powiatu Białostockiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06}} revoked by powiat council on 16 March 2023.
2. Powiat bielski,{{cite web |title=Uchwała nr VI/10/86/19 Rady Powiatu w Bielsku-Białej z dnia 30 września 2019 r. w sprawie wsparcia dla konstytucyjnego modelu rodziny opartego na tradycyjnych wartościach |url=http://www.bip.powiat.bielsko.pl/BIP.aspx?Sel=5400&Nr=2&ident=70033 |date=2019-09-30 |website=Rady Powiatu w Bielsku-Białej |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06}} revoked by Powiat council on 25 May 2023.
3. Powiat dębicki,{{Cite web |title=Uchwała Nr XI.101.2019 z 17 września 2019 |url=https://powiatdebicki.bip.gov.pl/2019-rok/uchwala-nr-xi-101-2019-z-17-wrzesnia-2019.html |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Starostwo Powiatowe W Dębicy |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 28 March 2025.
4. Powiat jarosławski,{{cite web |title=Deklaracja Rady Powiatu Jarosławskiego z dnia 27 czerwca 2019 roku przyjęta podczas obrad VIII sesji w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" przez wspólnotę samorządową |url=https://www.jaroslaw.samorzady.pl/zalacznik/id/9980 |date=2019-06-27 |website=Rady Powiatu Jarosławskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06 |archive-date=6 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206180842/https://www.jaroslaw.samorzady.pl/zalacznik/id/9980 |url-status=dead }} revoked by powiat council on 31 March 2023.
5. Powiat kielecki,{{cite web |title=Stanowisko Rady Powiatu w Kielcach z dnia 23 sierpnia 2019 r. w sprawie wyrażenia sprzeciwu wobec prób wprowadzania ideologii "LGBT" do lokalnej wspólnoty samorządowej |url=http://bip.powiat.kielce.pl/download/15178.pdf |date=2019-08-23 |website=Rady Powiatu w Kielcach |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06}} revoked by powiat council on 7 August 2023.
6. Powiat kolbuszowski,{{cite web |title=Deklaracja Rady Powiatu w Kolbuszowej z dnia 22 sierpnia 2019 r. w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" przez wspólnotę samorządową |url=http://bip.powiat.kolbuszowa.pl/_gAllery/24/12/24120/Deklaracja.Rady.Powiatu.pdf |date=2019-08-22 |website=Rady Powiatu w Kolbuszowej |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06}} revoked by powiat council on 26 January 2023.
7. Powiat krasnostawski,{{cite web |title=Stanowisko Rady Powiatu w Krasnymstawie z dnia 15 kwietnia 2019 r. w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" przez wspólnotę samorządową |url=https://bip.krasnystaw-powiat.pl/wiadomosci/8504/wiadomosc/470743/stanowisko_rady_powiatu_w_krasnymstawie__z_dnia_15_kwietnia_2019 |date=2019-04-15 |website=Rady Powiatu w Krasnymstawie |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06}} revoked by powiat council on 29 November 2021.
8. Powiat kraśnicki,Powiat Kraśnicki wolnym od ideologii „LGBT”. {{cite web |title=Imienny wykaz głosowania radnych na VIII sesji Rady Powiatu w Kraśniku VI kadencji w dniu 29 maja 2019 roku |url=https://powiatkrasnik.e-bip.eu/upload/pliki/Imienny_wykaz_glosowania_radnych_na_VIII_sesji_Rady_Powiatu_w_Krasniku_VI_kadencji_w_dniu_29_maja_2019_roku.pdf |date=2019-05-29 |website=Rady Powiatu w Kraśniku |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06}} revoked by powiat council on 26 April 2023.
9. Powiat leski,Stanowisko nr 1.2019 Rady Powiatu Leskiego w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii „LGBT” przez wspólnotę samorządową. {{cite web |title=Protokół VI Sesji Rady Powiatu w Lesku (zwyczajnej) odbytej w dniu 26 kwietnia 2019 r. w Lesku (Kadencja: 2018 r. – 2023 r.) |url=http://bip.powiat-leski.pl/fck_pliki/file/protokoly_rp/2019/Protokol-VI-Sesja-2019.pdf |date=2019-04-26 |website=Rady Powiatu Leskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06}} revoked by powiat council on 5 April 2023.
10. Powiat limanowski,{{Cite web |title=Samorządowa Karta Praw Rodziny odpowiedzią na "deklaracje o charakterze politycznym" |url=http://limanowa.in/aktualnosci/samorzadowa-karta-praw-rodziny-odpowiedzia-na-deklaracje-o-charakterze-politycznym/47878 |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Limanowa.in |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 18 May 2023.
11. Powiat lubaczowski,{{cite web |title=Deklaracja Rady Powiatu Lubaczowskiego z dnia 6 czerwca 2019 r. przyjęta podczas obrad X sesji przeciw wdrażaniu ideologii LGBT w życiu społecznym |url=http://www.lubaczow.powiat.pl/gfx/lubaczow/files/bip/2019/biuroobslugirady/deklaracja_rady_powiatu_lubaczowskiegp.pdf |date=2019-06-06 |website=Rady Powiatu Lubaczowskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06 |archive-date=6 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206180842/http://www.lubaczow.powiat.pl/gfx/lubaczow/files/bip/2019/biuroobslugirady/deklaracja_rady_powiatu_lubaczowskiegp.pdf |url-status=dead }} revoked by powiat council on 28 October 2021.
12. Powiat lubelski,{{cite web |title=Stanowisko Rady Powiatu w Lublinie z dnia 31 maja 2019 r. Powiat Lubelski wolny od ideologii "LGBT" |url=http://powiatlubelski.esesja.pl/zalaczniki/49662/stanowisko-lgbt_443892.doc |date=2019-05-31 |website=Rady Powiatu w Lublinie |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06}} revoked by powiat council on 30 March 2023.
13. Powiat łańcucki,{{Cite web |title=Aktualności: Samorządowa Karta Praw Rodzin |url=https://www.powiatlancut.pl/aktualnosci/samorzadowa-karta-praw-rodzin,2566.html |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Powiat Łańcucki |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 24 April 2025.
14. Powiat łowicki,{{Cite web |last=Redakcja |date=2019-04-26 |title=Rada Powiatu Łowickiego przyjęła kontrowersyjny dokument [PEŁNA TREŚĆ] |url=https://lowicz.naszemiasto.pl/rada-powiatu-lowickiego-przyjela-kontrowersyjny-dokument/ar/c1-5098675 |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Łowicz Nasze Miasto |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 30 August 2023.
15. Powiat łukowski,{{cite web |title=Uchwała Nr X/100/2019 Rady Powiatu Łukowskiego z dnia 15 października 2019 r. w sprawie przyjęcia stanowiska wyrażającego protest przeciw działaniom ukierunkowanym na promowanie ideologii ruchów LGBT |url=https://splukow.bip.e-zeto.eu/bip/52_splukow/fckeditor/file/organizacja%20dzialania%20samorzadu%20powiatowego/organy%20powiatu/rada%20powiatu/VI%20kadencja/uchwa%C5%82y/sesja%2010//100_x_100_2019_prawidlowa.pdf |date=2019-10-15 |website=Rady Powiatu Łukowskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06}} revoked by powiat council on 20 March 2023.
16. Powiat mielecki,{{cite web |title=Stanowisko Rady Powiatu Mieleckiego w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" przez wspólnotę samorządową |url=http://bip.powiat-mielecki.pl/rada-powiatu/stanowiska-rady/w-sprawie-powstrzymania-ideologii-lgbt-2.html |date=2019-06-26 |website=Rady Powiatu Mieleckiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06}} revoked by powiat council on 2 October 2023.
17. Powiat nowotarski,{{Cite web |date=2020-02-21 |title=Powiat nowotarski przyjął samorządową kartę praw rodzin |url=https://nowytarg24.tv/powiat-nowotarski-przyjal-samorzadowa-karte-praw-rodzin/ |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=NowyTarg24.tv |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 30 March 2023.
18. Powiat opoczyński,{{Cite web |title=Powiat wprowadza Samorządową Kartę Praw Rodzin |url=https://opocznopowiat.pl/aktualnosc-2710-powiat_wprowadza_samorzadowa_karte_praw.html |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Powiat Opoczno |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 26 September 2023.
19. Powiat przasnyski,{{Cite web |date=2019-06-11 |title=Powiat przasnyski przyjął Samorządową Kartę Praw Rodzin |url=https://eprzasnysz.pl/artykul/powiat-przasnyski-przyjal/727575 |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Powiat Przasnyski |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 25 October 2023.
20. Powiat przysuski,{{Cite web |title=Powiat przysuski chroni rodzinę |url=https://radioplus.com.pl/region/38897-powiat-przysuski-chroni-rodzine |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Radio Plus Radom |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 16 October 2023.
21. Powiat puławski,{{cite web |title=Stanowisko Rady Powiatu Puławskiego w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii lansowanej przez subkulturę "LGBT" w Powiecie Puławskim |url=https://sppulawy.bip.lubelskie.pl/index.php?id=1010&p1=szczegoly&p2=1394575 |date=2019-05-29 |website=Rady Powiatu Puławskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06 |archive-date=26 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226072016/https://sppulawy.bip.lubelskie.pl/index.php?id=1010&p1=szczegoly&p2=1394575 |url-status=dead }} revoked by powiat council on 29 March 2023.
22. Powiat radomski,{{Cite web |title=Powiat radomski na straży praw rodziny |url=https://radioplus.com.pl/region/41594-powiat-radomski-na-strazy-praw-rodziny |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Radio Plus Radom |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 17 October 2023.
23. Powiat radzyński,{{Cite web |title=Samorządowa Karta Praw Rodziny w Radzyniu Podlaskim |url=https://lublin.tvp.pl/43118856/samorzadowa-karta-praw-rodziny-w-radzyniu-podlaskim |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Telewizja Polska Lublin |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 28 March 2023.
24. Powiat rawski,{{Cite web |date=2019-07-01 |title=Samorządowa Karta Praw Rodzin w Powiecie Rawskim |url=http://www.kochamrawe.pl/samorzadowa-karta-praw-rodzin-w-powiecie-rawskim/ |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Kochamrawe |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 5 June 2023.
25. Powiat rycki,{{cite web |title=Uchwała Rady Powiatu w Rykach – Stanowisko Rady Powiatu Ryckiego w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii gender i "LGBT" |url=https://spryki.bip.lubelskie.pl/index.php?id=71&id_dokumentu=1387139&akcja=szczegoly&p2=1387139 |date=2019-04-30 |website=Rady Powiatu Ryckiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-01-28}} revoked by powiat council on 25 April 2023.
26. Powiat sztumski,{{Cite web |last=Skrobisz |first=Jacek |date=2020-02-13 |title=Powiat sztumski. Radni przyjęli Samorządową Kartę Praw Rodzin. Powstała "Strefa Wolna od LGBT"? |url=https://portalnaplus.pl/2020/02/13/powiat-sztumski-radni-przyjeli-samorzadowa-karte-praw-rodzin-powstala-strefa-wolna-od-lgbt/ |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Portal na Plus |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 22 September 2020.
27. Powiat świdnicki,{{cite web |title=Stanowisko Nr 1/2019 w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" przez wspólnotę samorządową. |url=https://spswidnik.bip.lubelskie.pl/index.php?id=452&id_dokumentu=1369615&akcja=szczegoly&p2=1369615 |date=2019-04-02 |website=Powiat Świdnicki |language=pl |access-date=2020-01-28}} revoked by powiat council on 24 October 2023.
28. Powiat tarnowski,{{cite web |title=Rezolucja nr 1.2019 Rady Powiatu Tarnowskiego z dnia 30 kwietnia 2019 r. w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" przez wspólnotę samorządową |url=https://bip.malopolska.pl/sptarnow,m,308837,2018-2023.html |date=2019-04-30 |website=Biuletyny Informacji Publicznej Województwa Małopolskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06}} revoked by powiat council on 27 June 2023.
29. Powiat tatrzański,{{Cite news |url=https://krakow.wyborcza.pl/krakow/7,44425,25553503,podhale-przyjelo-samorzadowa-karte-praw-rodzin-jestesmy-to.html |title=Podhale przyjęło Samorządową Kartę Praw Rodzin. "Jesteśmy to winni papieżowi" |first=Angelika |last=Pitoń |date=December 30, 2019 |newspaper=Gazeta Wyborcza |language=pl |access-date=2020-09-11}} revoked by powiat council on 29 July 2024.
30. Powiat tomaszowski,{{Cite web |title=Uchwała Nr XVIII/144/2020 Rady Powiatu w Tomaszowie Mazowieckim z dnia 27 lutego 2020 r. w sprawie przyjęcia przez Powiat Tomaszowski Samorządowej Karty Praw Rodzin |url=https://bip.powiat-tomaszowski.pl/content.php?cms_id=4528 |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Powiat Tomaszowski |language=pl }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} revoked by powiat council on 7 December 2023.
31. Powiat wieluński,{{Cite web |last=Rybczyński |first=Zbigniew |date=2019-07-03 |title=Radni Powiatu Wieluńskiego w obronie praw rodziny. Przyjęto dokument Instytutu Ordo Iuris |url=https://wielun.naszemiasto.pl/radni-powiatu-wielunskiego-w-obronie-praw-rodziny-przyjeto/ar/c1-5192179 |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=Wieluń Nasze Miasto |language=pl}} revoked by powiat council on 19 October 2023.
32. Powiat włoszczowski,{{cite web |title=Rezolucja Rady Powiatu Włoszczowskiego z dnia 16 września 2019 r. w sprawie sprzeciwu wobec promocji i prób wprowadzania ideologii "LGBT" w życiu publicznym |url=http://www.starostwo.wloszczowa.eobip.pl/_gAllery/37/35/37350/88_os._niep..pdf |date=2019-09-16 |website=Rady Powiatu Włoszczowskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-06}} revoked by powiat council on 16 August 2023.
33. Powiat zamojski,{{cite web |title=Uchwała Nr VIII/90/2019 Rady Powiatu w Zamościu z dnia 26 czerwca 2019 roku w sprawie przyjęcia Stanowiska Rady Powiatu w Zamościu w sprawie powstrzymania promowania ideologii "LGBT" |url=https://spzamosc.bip.lubelskie.pl/index.php?id=928&id_dokumentu=1402243&akcja=szczegoly&p2=1402243 |date=2019-06-27 |website=Rady Powiatu w Zamościu |language=pl |access-date=2020-01-28}} revoked by powiat council on 21 December 2022.

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1. Gromnik,{{cite web |title=Rezolucja nr 1.2019 Rady Gminy Gromnik z dnia 27 września 2019 r. w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" przez wspólnotę samorządową |url=https://bip.malopolska.pl/uggromnik,a,1673791,rezolucja-nr-12019-rady-gminy-gromnik-z-dnia-27-wrzesnia-2019r-w-sprawie-powstrzymania-ideologii-lgb.html |date=2019-09-27 |website=Biuletyny Informacji Publicznej Województwa Małopolskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by gmina council on 28 April 2024.
2. Istebna,{{cite web |title=Uchwała nr X/78/2019 Rady Gminy Istebna z dnia 2 września 2019 r. w sprawie podjęcia deklaracji w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" przez wspólnotę samorządową |url=https://istebna.bip.info.pl/dokument.php?iddok=6983&dstr=1&txt=bGdidA== |date=2019-09-02 |website=Rady Gminy Istebna |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by NSA on 28 June 2022.
3. Jordanów (gmina wiejska),{{cite web |title=Deklaracja w sprawie sprzeciwu wobec wprowadzenia ideologii "LGBT" do wspólnot samorządowych |url=https://bip.malopolska.pl/api/files/2231522 |date=2019-05-30 |website=Biuletyny Informacji Publicznej Województwa Małopolskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by the gmina council in 31 January 2023{{cite web | url=https://glos24.pl/kolejna-malopolska-gmina-po-cichu-wycofuje-sie-z-deklaracji-anty-lgbt | title=Kolejna małopolska gmina po cichu wycofuje się z deklaracji anty-LGBT | date=13 February 2023 }}
4. Klwów,{{cite web |title=Uchwała nr VI/51/2019 Rady Gminy Klwów z dnia 17 czerwca 2019 r. w sprawie: podjęcia deklaracji – "Gmina Klwów wolna od ideologii "LGBT"" |url=http://www.bip.klwow.akcessnet.net/UserFiles/File/uchwaly2018_2013/51.pdf |date=2019-06-17 |website=Rady Gminy Klwów |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by NSA on 28 June 2022.
5. Kraśnik,{{cite web |title=Załącznik nr 14 – głosowanie imienne – Podjęcie uchwały Rady Miasta Kraśnik w sprawie przyjęcia stanowiska dotyczącego powstrzymania ideologii LGBT przez wspólnotę samorządową. |url=https://umkrasnik.bip.lubelskie.pl/index.php?id=226&id_dokumentu=1393870&akcja=szczegoly&p2=1393870 |date=2019-06-03 |website=Rady Miasta Kraśnik |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by gmina council in 29 April 2021.{{cite news|last = Domagała| first = Małgorzata|date= 2021-04-29| title = Kraśnik odrzucił uchwałę "przeciw ideologii LGBT". Motywacją były fundusze norweskie| url = https://lublin.wyborcza.pl/lublin/7,48724,27032938,krasnik-uchylil-stanowisko-w-sprawie-ideologii-wolnej-od-ideologii.html| work = Gazeta Wyborcza| location= | access-date = 2021-04-29}}
6. Końskowola,{{cite web | url=https://www.rp.pl/ustroj-i-kompetencje/art37758561-rpo-uchylic-ostatnie-uchwaly-anty-lgbt-co-na-to-gminy-i-powiaty | title=RPO: Uchylić ostatnie uchwały "anty-LGBT". Są odpowiedzi gmin i powiatów }} revoked by the gmina council in 1 February 2023.{{cite web | url=https://samorzad.pap.pl/kategoria/aktualnosci/rpo-wzywa-jst-ktore-trwaja-w-uchwalach-anty-lgbt-do-ich-uchylenia-lista | title=RPO wzywa JST, które trwają w uchwałach "anty-LGBT" do ich uchylenia (Lista) }}
7. Kock, revoked by WSA on 11 January 2021.
8. Konstantynów, revoked by gmina council on 14 March 2024.
9. Lipinki,{{cite web |title=Uchwała nr V/52/2019 Rady Gminy Lipinki z dnia 12 kwietnia 2019 r. w sprawie podjęcia deklaracji "Gmina Lipinki wolna od ideologii "LGBT"" |url=https://bip.malopolska.pl/uglipinki,a,1594999,uchwala-nr-v522019-rady-gminy-lipinki-z-dnia-12-kwietnia-2019-r-w-sprawie-podjecia-deklaracji-gmina-.html |date=2019-04-12 |website=Biuletyny Informacji Publicznej Województwa Małopolskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by gmina council on 29 May 2023.
10. Łososina Dolna,{{cite web |title=Uchwała nr 64/VIII/2019 Rady Gminy w Łososinie Dolnej z dnia 31 maja 2019 r. w sprawie przyjęcia Rezolucji dotyczącej powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" przez wspólnotę samorządową oraz ataków na Polski Kościół i obrażania uczuć religijnych ludzi wierzących |url=https://bip.malopolska.pl/uglososinadolna,a,1617268,uchwala-nr-64viii2019-rady-gminy-w-lososinie-dolnej-z-dnia-31-maja-2019-r-w-sprawie-przyjecia-rezolu.html |date=2019-05-31 |website=Biuletyny Informacji Publicznej Województwa Małopolskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by gmina council on 29 May 2023.
11. Mełgiew, revoked by gmina council on 30 March 2023.
12. Mordy, revoked by WSA on 6 February 2024.
13. Moszczenica, revoked by the gmina council in 29 December 2022.
14. Niebylec,{{cite web |title=Uchwała nr XI/93/2019 Rady Gminy Niebylec z dnia 25 września 2019 r. w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" |url=http://www.bip.niebylec.pl/atach/3/95/5122/93.pdf |date=2019-09-25 |website=Rady Gminy Niebylec |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by NSA on 12 October 2023.
15. Osiek, revoked by NSA on 28 June 2022.
16. Ostrów Lubelski, revoked by the gmina council in 31 May 2023.
17. Poniatowa, revoked by the gmina council in 15 May 2023.
18. Potworów, revoked by the gmina council in 7 September 2023.
19. Przeworsk, revoked by the gmina council in 28 December 2022.
20. Radziechowy-Wieprz, revoked in 11 September 2020 by the voivode of the Silesian Voivodeship, Jarosław Wieczorek.{{cite news |title=Zaskakująca decyzja. Wojewoda z PiS uchylił Kartę Praw Rodziny |url=https://oko.press/zaskakujaca-decyzja-wojewody-slaskiego-z-pis-uchylil-homofobiczna-karte-praw-rodzin/ |access-date=6 October 2020 |work=oko.press}}
21. Szczytniki, revoked by the gmina council in 15 June 2023.
22. Świdnik, revoked by the gmina council in 29 December 2022.{{cite web | url=https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/01/07/polish-town-replaces-anti-lgbt-resolution-with-anti-discrimination-declaration-amid-eu-funding-threat/ | title=Polish town replaces anti-LGBT resolution with anti-discrimination declaration amid EU funding threat | date=7 January 2023 }}
23. Stary Zamość,{{cite web | url=https://vibez.pl/wydarzenia/te-miejsca-nadal-sa-strefami-wolnymi-od-lgbt-rpo-interweniuje-6842078795459104a | title=Te miejsca nadal są "strefami wolnymi od LGBT+". RPO interweniuje - Vibez.pl }} revoked by the gmina council in 17 May 2023.
24. Serniki,{{cite web |title=Stanowisko Rady Gminy Serniki w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" przez wspólnotę samorządową |url=https://ugserniki.bip.lubelskie.pl/index.php?id=69&akcja=szczegoly&p2=1403087 |date=2019-06-21 |website=Rady Gminy Serniki |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07 |archive-date=22 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022110141/https://ugserniki.bip.lubelskie.pl/index.php?id=69&akcja=szczegoly&p2=1403087 |url-status=dead }} revoked by NSA on 28 June 2022.{{cite news |url=https://www.msn.com/pl-pl/wiadomosci/polska/s%C4%85d-zdecydowa%C5%82-kolejna-uchwa%C5%82a-anty-lgbt-uniewa%C5%BCniona-dotyczy%C5%82a-gminy-serniki/ar-BB17Ea8b?ocid=msedgntp |title=Sąd zdecydował - kolejna uchwała anty-LGBT unieważniona. Dotyczyła gminy Serniki |website=MSN |language=pl |access-date=6 August 2020}}{{cite news |url=https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetlublin/lublin-uchwala-przeciwko-lgbt-uniewazniona-przez-sad/rqdspf5,79cfc278 |title=Sąd unieważnił uchwałę anty-LGBT podjętą przez gminę Serniki. "Ma charakter dyskryminujący" |website=Onet.pl |language=pl |access-date=6 August 2020}}
25. Szerzyny{{cite web |title=Uchwała IX/60/2019 Rady Gminy Szerzyny z dnia 4 czerwca 2019 roku zawierająca Deklarację w sprawie sprzeciwu wobec wprowadzenia ideologi "LGBT" do wspólnot samorządowych |url=https://bip.malopolska.pl/ugszerzyny,a,1622748,uchwala-ix602019-rady-gminy-szerzyny-z-dnia-4-czerwca-2019-roku-zawierajaca-deklaracje-w-sprawie-spr.html |date=2019-06-04 |website=Biuletyny Informacji Publicznej Województwa Małopolskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by the gmina council in 30 March 2023.
26. Trzebieszów,{{cite web |title=Uchwała nr VIII/63/19 z dnia 18 czerwca 2019 r. w sprawie stanowiska Rady Gminy Trzebieszów dotyczącego wprowadzania do wspólnot samorządowych ideologii "LGBT" |url=https://ugtrzebieszow.bip.lubelskie.pl/index.php?id=202&id_dokumentu=1401928&akcja=szczegoly&p2=1401928 |date=2019-06-18 |website=Rady Gminy Trzebieszów |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by the gmina council in 30 March 2023.
27. Tuchów,{{cite web |title=Rezolucja nr 2/2019 Rady Miejskiej w Tuchowie z dnia 29 maja 2019 r. w sprawie przyjęcia rezolucji dotyczącej powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT+" przez wspólnotę samorządową |url=https://bip.malopolska.pl/umtuchow,a,1615382,ws-przyjecia-rezolucji-dotyczacej-powstrzymania-ideologii-lgbt-przez-wspolnote-samorzadowa.html |date=2019-05-29 |website=Biuletyny Informacji Publicznej Województwa Małopolskiego |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by the gmina council in 27 October 2021.{{cite web| url = https://krakow.wyborcza.pl/krakow/7,44425,27732273,tuchow-wycofuje-sie-z-uchwaly-anty-lgbt-to-ich-ziobro-bronil.html#:~:text=Tuch%C3%B3w%20jest%20pierwsz%C4%85%20gmin%C4%85%20w%20Ma%C5%82opolsce%2C%20kt%C3%B3ra%20wycofa%C5%82a,obowi%C4%85zuje%20w%2015%20gminach%20i%20powiatach%20w%20regionie. |language = pl |title=Tuchów wycofuje się z uchwały anty-LGBT. To ich Ziobro bronił przed "prześladowaniami i napaścią ideologiczną" | access-date = 2021-12-11}}
28. Tuszów Narodowy,{{cite web |title=Stanowisko Rady Gminy Tuszów Narodowy przyjęte na V sesji Rady Gminy Tuszów Narodowy w dniu 29 marca 2019 roku w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" przez wspólnotę samorządową |url=https://tuszownarodowy.biuletyn.net/?bip=2&cid=234&id=1007 |date=2019-03-29 |website=Rady Gminy Tuszów Narodowy |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by the gmina council in 17 August 2023.
29. Urzędów,{{cite web |title=Stanowisko Rady Miejskiej w Urzędowie z dnia 28 marca 2019 r. w sprawie powstrzymania ideologii "LGBT" przez wspólnotę samorządową |url=https://ugurzedow.bip.lubelskie.pl/index.php?id=716&id_dokumentu=1413203&akcja=szczegoly&p2=1413203 |date=2019-03-28 |website=Rady Miejskiej w Urzędowie |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by the gmina council in 26 April 2023.
30. Wilkołaz, revoked by the gmina council in 30 March 2023.
31. Zwierzyniec, revoked by the gmina council in 29 May 2023.
32. Zarzecze, revoked by the gmina council in 15 December 2021.
33. Zakrzówek,{{cite web |title=Stanowisko Rady Gminy Zakrzówek "Zakrzówek – gminą wolną od ideologii LGBT" |url=https://ugzakrzowek.bip.lubelskie.pl/index.php?id=380&id_dokumentu=1413323&akcja=szczegoly&p2=1413323 |date=2019-05-22 |website=Rady Gminy Zakrzówek |language=pl |access-date=2020-02-07}} revoked by the gmina council in 4 October 2023.
34. Skierniewice,{{cite web |title=Gmina Skierniewice: Rada mówi stanowcze nie dla LGBT |url=https://eglos.pl/aktualnosci/item/35093-gmina-skierniewice-rada-mowi-stanowcze-nie-dla-lgbt |website=Gmina Skierniewice |language=pl |access-date=2020-03-28}} revoked by the gmina council in 16 February 2024.

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In July 2019, the conservative Gazeta Polska newspaper issued "LGBT-free zone" stickers to readers.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49037275 |title=Polish newspaper to issue 'LGBT-free zone' stickers |website=BBC News |date=18 July 2019}} The Polish opposition and diplomats, including US ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher, condemned the stickers.{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-lgbt/conservative-polish-magazine-issues-lgbt-free-zone-stickers-idUSKCN1UJ0HE |title=Conservative Polish magazine issues 'LGBT-free zone' stickers |work=Reuters |date=24 July 2019}} Gazeta Polska editor in chief Tomasz Sakiewicz replied to the criticism with: "what is happening is the best evidence that LGBT is a totalitarian ideology".

The Warsaw district court ordered that distribution of the stickers should halt pending the resolution of a court case.{{cite web |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/01/polish-court-rebukes-lgbt-free-zone-stickers |title=Polish Court Rebukes "LGBT-Free Zone" Stickers |website=Human Rights Watch |date=1 August 2019}} Gazeta Polska{{'s}} editor dismissed the ruling saying it was "fake news" and censorship, and that the paper would continue distributing the stickers.{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/lgbt-rights-polish-paper-dismisses-court-ruling-on-lgbt-free-zone-stickers/ |title=Polish magazine dismisses court ruling on 'LGBT-free zone' stickers |work=Politico |date=26 July 2019}} Gazeta Polska continued distribution of the stickers, but modified the decal to read "LGBT Ideology-Free Zone".

Poland's Campaign Against Homophobia responded by issuing 5,000 "hate-free zone" stickers distributed in gay magazine Replika. In July, Polish media chain Empik, the country's largest, refused to stock Gazeta Polska after it issued the stickers. In August 2019, a show organized by the Gazeta Polska Community of America scheduled for October 24 in Carnegie Hall in New York was cancelled after complaints of anti-LGBT ties led to artists pulling out of the show.{{cite news |url=https://www.newsweek.com/carnegie-hall-anti-lgbt-gazeta-polska-1456199 |title=Carnegie Hall Concert Linked To Anti-LGBT Magazine Cancelled |first=Jake |last=Maher |date=26 August 2019 |newspaper=Newsweek}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/group-connected-lgbt-free-zone-newspaper-cancels-carnegie-hall-event-n1046376 |title=Group connected to 'LGBT-Free Zone' newspaper cancels Carnegie Hall event |first=Tim |last=Fitzsimons |date=26 August 2019 |website=NBC News}}

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In early 2020, Polish LGBT activist Bartosz Staszewski travelled to municipalities that had said they are free from what they referred to as "LGBT ideology" to undertake what he said was a performance art project.{{cite web | url=https://apnews.com/article/poland-warsaw-europe-local-governments-df60fad38bdc1be80f29e74630febf0e | title=Under fire over LGBT rights, Polish leader blames activist | website=Associated Press | date=20 April 2021 }} He affixed his own yellow street signs saying "LGBT-FREE ZONE" at the entrance to the municipalities, and posted photos of them to social media.

The signs were so convincing that MEP Guy Verhofstadt responded by denouncing what he had mistaken for official street signage.{{cite web | url=https://notesfrompoland.com/2020/01/25/activist-signposts-polish-towns-as-lgbt-free-zone-in-protest-against-anti-lgbt-resolutions/ | title=Activist signposts Polish towns as "LGBT-free zones" in protest against anti-LGBT resolutions | date=25 January 2020 }} Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki described the signs as a "hoax" that had caused people to believe Poland was violating human rights, and Staszewski has been sued by at least two of the towns.{{cite web | url=https://wyborcza.pl/7,173236,26368890,lgbt-activist-sued-over-bringing-public-attention-to-homophobic.html | title=LGBT activist sued over bringing public attention to homophobic resolutions adopted by local authorities }} Staszewski described his work as "a symbolic response to the symbolic resolutions".

In a debate between Polish conservative Witold Waszczykowski and German liberal Alexander Graf Lambsdorff published in Zeit Online, Waszczykowski attributed the concept of the "LGBT-free zone" to the activism. He said: "There are no "LGBT-free zones" in Poland. This is a provocation created by activists. They travel from town to town, put up these signs reading "LGBT-free zone", take pictures and circulate them on social media.{{cite news | url=https://www.zeit.de/politik/2020-11/european-values-poland-witold-waszczykowski-alexander-graf-lambsdorff/seite-2 | title=ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl | newspaper=Die Zeit | date=11 November 2020 | last1=Kortas | first1=Olivia | last2=Krupa | first2=Matthias }} Zeit replied: "Indeed, there is no "LGBT-free zone" by definition, but there are more than 80 county, city and regional councils that have adopted so-called family charters. In many cases these charters say that there should be no propaganda of a so-called "LGBT ideology" and they also state that "LGBT ideology" contradicts Christian values".

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In Rzeszów, after LGBT activists submitted a request to hold an equality march for gay rights in June 2019, PiS councillors drafted a resolution to make Rzeszów an "LGBT-free zone" as well as outlaw the event itself. Some 29 requests for counter-demonstrations reached city hall, which led mayor Tadeusz Ferenc, of the opposition Democratic Left Alliance, to ban the march due to security concerns. When the ban was then overturned by a court ruling, PiS councillors put forward a resolution outlawing "LGBT ideology", which was defeated by two votes.

Following the violent events in the first Białystok equality march{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/21/europe/bialystok-polish-lgbtq-pride-intl/index.html |title=Polish city holds first LGBTQ equality march despite far-right violence |website=CNN |date=21 July 2019}} and the Gazeta Polska stickers a demonstration for tolerance was held in Gdańsk{{cite news |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/Right-wing-Polish-magazine-slammed-for-anti-LGBT-14118983.php |title=Right-wing Polish magazine slammed for anti-LGBT stickers |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=24 July 2019 |access-date=21 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821151339/https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/Right-wing-Polish-magazine-slammed-for-anti-LGBT-14118983.php |archive-date=21 August 2019 |url-status=dead}} on 23 July 2019, with the slogan "zone free of zones" ({{langx|pl|Strefa wolna od stref}}).{{cite news |url=http://trojmiasto.wyborcza.pl/trojmiasto/7,35612,25021564,strefa-wolna-od-stref-w-gdansku-odbyl-sie-protest-przeciwko.html |title="Każdy równy, wszyscy różni". W Gdańsku odbył się protest przeciwko nienawiści |trans-title="Everyone is equal, everyone is different": A protest against hatred took place in Gdansk |language=pl |first1=Maciej |last1=Dzwonnik |newspaper=Gazeta Wyborcza |location=Tricity |date=23 July 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://dziennikbaltycki.pl/strefa-wolna-od-stref-manifestacja-przeciwko-nienawisci-w-gescie-solidarnosci-z-lgbt-w-gdansku-2307/ar/c1-14294763 |title="Strefa wolna od stref" - manifestacja przeciwko nienawiści, w geście solidarności z LGBT w Gdańsku |trans-title="Zone free of zones" – a manifestation against hatred, in a gesture of solidarity with LGBT in Gdansk |language=pl |website=Dziennik Baltycki |date=23 July 2019}}{{cite news |url=https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/spoleczenstwo/1801490,1,solidarni-z-bialymstokiem-marsze-zbiorki-i-teczowasroda.read |title=Solidarni z Białymstokiem. Marsze, zbiórki i #TęczowaŚroda |trans-title=Solidarity with Bialystok: Marches, rebounds and #TęczowaŚroda |language=pl |newspaper=Polityka |date=23 July 2019}} In Szczecin a demonstration under the slogan of "hate-free zone" ({{langx|pl|Strefa wolna od nienawiści}}) took place,{{cite news |url=http://szczecin.wyborcza.pl/szczecin/7,34939,25029552,szczecin-strefa-wolna-od-nienawisci-w-odpowiedzi-na-te-furie.html |title=Szczecin - strefa wolna od nienawiści! W odpowiedzi na tę furię, ten rynsztok |trans-title=Szczecin – a zone free from hatred! In response to this fury, this gutter |language=pl |newspaper=Gazeta Wyborcza |date=26 July 2019}} and in Łódź left-wing politicians handed out "hate-free zone" stickers.{{cite news |url=http://lodz.wyborcza.pl/lodz/7,35136,25020614,lodz-razem-z-bialystokiem-rozdano-wlepki-strefa-wolna-od-nienawisci.html |title=Łódź razem z Białymstokiem. Rozdano wlepki "strefa wolna od nienawiści", będzie pikieta |trans-title=Łódź together with Białystok: "Hate Free Zone" stickers were distributed, there will be a picket |language=pl |newspaper=Gazeta Wyborcza |date=23 July 2019}}

According to a December 2020 report by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights: {{blockquote|Far from being merely words on paper, these declarations and charters directly impact the lives of LGBTI people in Poland. The Commissioner has heard testimonies about the chilling effect of these documents on residents and institutions, who are increasingly reluctant to be associated with any activity related to the human rights of LGBTI people for fear of reprisals or loss of funds. The Commissioner was told that some media outlets which have reported on these documents have been targeted by legal action, leading some of them to exercise self-censorship. She has also been told about cases of LGBTI residents being refused services by local businesses (e.g. a pharmacy) or organisations being denied the opportunity to hold LGBTI awareness-raising events. Activists working to denounce such declarations have also been subjected to specious lawsuits filed by local governments or conservative organisations and a smear campaign labelling them as liars for using creative advocacy tools, the clear intention being to intimidate and silence them. The Commissioner has received reports of many LGBTI people being shunned by fellow residents.[https://rm.coe.int/memorandum-on-the-stigmatisation-of-lgbti-people-in-poland/1680a08b8e Memorandum on the stigmatisation of LGBTI people in Poland] 3 December 2020}}

Bożena Bieryło, a PiS councilwoman in Białystok County, said the legislation in Białystok county was required due to LGBT "provocations" and "demands" for sex education instruction.

The national PiS party encouraged the local declarations, with a PiS official handing out medals in Lublin to local politicians who supported the declarations.

In July 2019, Polish Ombudsman Adam Bodnar stated that "the government is increasing homophobic sentiments" with remarks "on the margins of hate speech". Bodnar said he is preparing an appeal to the administrative court against the declarations, as according to Bodnar they are not only political but also have a normative character that affects the lives of people in the declared region.{{cite news |url=https://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/adam-bodnar-przygotowuje-sie-do-zaskarzenia-uchwal-w-sprawie-ideologii-lgbt,954999.html |title=Adam Bodnar: przygotowuję się do zaskarżenia uchwał w sprawie ideologii LGBT |trans-title=Adam Bodnar: I'm preparing to appeal against resolutions banning LGBT ideology |language=pl |website=TVN24 |date=22 July 2019}}{{cite news |url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1718135/right-wing-polish-magazine-issues-anti-lgbt-stickers |title=Right-wing Polish magazine issues anti-LGBT stickers |website=Bangkok Post |date=24 July 2019}}

In July 2019, Warsaw city Councillor Marek Szolc and the {{ill|Polish Society for Anti-Discrimination Law|pl|Polskie Towarzystwo Prawa Antydyskryminacyjnego}} (PTPA) released a legal opinion stating that LGBT-free zone declarations stigmatize and exclude people, reminding everyone of article 32 of the Constitution of Poland which guarantees equality and lack of discrimination.{{cite web |url=http://www.ptpa.org.pl/aktualnosci/2019/konferencja-prasowa/ |title=Konferencja prasowa na rzecz osób LGBT+ |trans-title=Press release about LGBT+ people |language=pl |website=Polish Society for Anti-Discrimination Law |date=19 July 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/samorzady-przyjmuja-tak-zwane-uchwaly-anty-lgbt,955659.html |title=Samorządy przyjmują tak zwane uchwały anty-LGBT |trans-title=Local governments adopt anti-LGBT resolutions |language=pl |website=TVN24 |date=25 July 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://queer.pl/news/203112/ustawy-regionow-wolnych-od-lgbt-sa-niezgodne-z-prawem |title=Ustawy regionów "wolnych od LGBT" są niezgodne z prawem |trans-title=The laws of "LGBT free" regions are unlawful |website=Queer.pl |language=pl |date=22 July 2019}}

In August 2019, multiple LGBT community members stated that they feel unsafe in Poland. The left-wing Razem party stated: "Remember how the right [were scared] of the so-called [Muslim] no-go zones? Thanks to the same right, we have our own no-go zones."{{cite web |url=https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/polish-newspaper-is-handing-out-lgbt-free-zone-stickers/ |title=Polish newspaper is handing out 'LGBT-free zone' stickers |date=18 July 2019 |first=Tom |last=Capon |website=Gay Star News |access-date=15 August 2019 |archive-date=20 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920170623/https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/polish-newspaper-is-handing-out-lgbt-free-zone-stickers/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114883,25004389,gazeta-polska-drukuje-naklejki-strefa-wolna-od-lgbt-doczekalismy.html |title="Gazeta Polska" drukuje naklejki "Strefa wolna od LGBT". Czy ktoś w redakcji słyszał o nazistach? |trans-title="Gazeta Polska" prints "LGBT free zone" stickers. Has anyone in the editorial heard about the Nazis? |website=Gazeta.pl |language=pl |date=17 July 2019}}

File:Judenfrei Bydgoszcz synagoga.jpg, German-occupied Poland, 1939. Nazi banner proclaiming city is judenfrei (free of Jews). This image was tweeted by a representative of Robert Biedroń's party in response to the LGBT-free zones.{{cite web |url=https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=34079 |title=Polnisches Magazin verteilt Aufkleber "LGBT-freie Zone" |trans-title=Polish magazine distributed "LGBT-free zone" stickers |language=de |website=Queer.de |date=18 July 2019}}]]

Liberal politicians and media and human rights activists have compared the declarations to Nazi-era declarations of areas being judenfrei (free of Jews). Left-leaning Italian newspaper la Repubblica called it "a concept that evokes the term 'Judenfrei'".{{cite news |url=https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2019/07/21/news/polonia_botte_e_insulti_alla_manifestazioni_gay-231691360/?refresh_ce |title=Polonia, botte e insulti al gay-pride di Bialystok |trans-title=Poland, beatings and insults to the gay pride of Bialystok |newspaper=la Repubblica |language=it |date=21 July 2019}}{{cite news |url=https://www.rp.pl/Dobra-osobiste/308059965-RPO-o-Strefie-wolnej-od-LGBT-Polsce-grozi-dyskryminacja-na-rynku-uslug.html |title=RPO o "Strefie wolnej od LGBT": Polsce grozi dyskryminacja na rynku usług |trans-title=RPO on the "LGBT Free Zone": Poland is facing discrimination in the services market |newspaper=Rzeczpospolita |language=pl |date=5 August 2019}} Campaign Against Homophobia director Slava Melnyk compared the declarations to "1933, when there were also free zones from a specific group of people."{{cite web |url=https://fakty.tvn24.pl/ogladaj-online,60/naklejki-strefa-wolna-od-lgbt-komentarz-ambasador-i-odpowiedz-rzadu,954297.html |title=Naklejki "Strefa wolna od LGBT". Komentarz ambasador i odpowiedź rządu |trans-title=Newspaper promotes stickers with the words "LGBT free zone": US ambassador "disappointed and worried" |website=TVN24 |language=pl |first1=Magda |last1=Łucyan |date=19 July 2019}} Warsaw's deputy president Paweł Rabiej tweeted, "The German fascists created zones free of Jews. Apartheid, of blacks."{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/polish-magazine-criticized-planning-lgbt-free-zone-stickers-n1031296 |title=Polish magazine criticized for planning 'LGBT-free zone' stickers |website=NBC News |first1=Tim |last1=Fitzsimons |date=19 July 2019|quote=While conservative social media users cheered the move on Twitter and on Facebook, many liberal Poles connected the effort to create "LGBT-free" zones to Nazi efforts to create zones free of Jews.}}

In March 2020, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a documentary on the opposition of the LGBT community in Poland against the introduction of LGBT-free zones in the country.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csyvpc |title=The fight against Poland's 'LGBT free zones' |date=21 March 2020 |website=BBC Radio 4 |access-date=26 August 2020}}

In April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many within the LGBT community began handing out rainbow facemasks and other P.P.E. as a direct protest of the "LGBT-free zoning" within certain local government areas of Poland.{{Cite news |date=2020-04-20 |title=Polish couple hand out rainbow masks to fight country's LGBTQI-free zones |url=https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/international-news-news/polish-couple-hand-out-rainbow-masks-to-fight-countrys-lgbtq-free-zones/194486 |access-date=2020-07-09 |newspaper=Star Observer}}

On 17 August 2020, an open letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was published urging the European Union "to take immediate steps in defense of basic European values [...] which have been violated in Poland" and expressing "a deep concern over the future of democracy in Poland". It also appealed to the Polish government to stop targeting sexual minorities as enemies and to withdraw support from organizations promoting homophobia. The signatories of the letter included among others: Pedro Almodóvar, Timothy Garton Ash, Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Judith Butler, J. M. Coetzee, Stephen Daldry, Luca Guadagnino, Ed Harris, Agnieszka Holland, Isabelle Huppert, Jan Komasa, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mike Leigh, Paweł Pawlikowski, Volker Schlöndorff, Stellan Skarsgård, Timothy Snyder, Olga Tokarczuk, Adam Zagajewski and Slavoj Žižek.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53818948 |title=Stars sign open letter supporting Polish LGBT rights |work=BBC News |date=18 August 2020 |access-date=21 August 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.msn.com/pl-pl/news/other/%C5%9Bwiatowi-tw%C3%B3rcy-kultury-staj%C4%85-w-obronie-os%C3%B3b-lgbt-w-polsce-powsta%C5%82-otwarty-list-do-przedstawicieli-unii-europejskiej/ar-BB183ngv?ocid=msedgdhp |title=Światowi twórcy kultury stają w obronie osób LGBT w Polsce. Powstał otwarty list do przedstawicieli Unii Europejskiej |date=17 August 2020 |website=MSN Wiadomości |language=pl |access-date=17 August 2020}}{{cite news |url=https://wyborcza.pl/7,173236,26217113,lgbt-community-in-poland-a-letter-of-solidarity-and-protest.html |title=LGBT+ Community in Poland: a Letter of Solidarity and Protest |date=17 August 2020 |newspaper=Gazeta Wyborcza |access-date=17 August 2020}}

In September 2020, the American presidential candidate Joe Biden also condemned LGBT-free zones in Poland via Twitter stating that "LGBTQ+ rights are human rights — and 'LGBT-free zones' have no place in the European Union or anywhere in the world".{{cite web| url = http://tvn24.pl/swiat/joe-biden-o-strefach-wolnych-od-lgbt-4697823 |language = pl |title =Biden: nigdzie na świecie nie ma miejsca na "strefy wolne od LGBT" | access-date = 2020-09-21}} The Polish embassy in Washington, D.C. replied that Biden's Tweet had been "based on inaccurate media information, as no 'LGBT-free zones' exist in Poland."{{cite web | url=https://wyborcza.pl/7,173236,26327279,polish-embassy-to-biden-no-lgbt-free-zones-exist-in-poland.html | title=Polish embassy to Biden: "No LGBT-free zones exist in Poland" }}

The Atlas of Hate organization, which keeps track of the anti-LGBT resolutions, was nominated for the Sakharov Prize by 43 MEPs.{{cite news |last1=Sitnicka |first1=Dominika |title=Atlas Nienawiści nominowany do Nagrody im. Sacharowa |url=https://oko.press/atlas-nienawisci-nominowany-do-nagrody-im-sacharowa-zasluga-rzadu-kosciola-i-prezydenta/ |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=oko.press |date=21 September 2020}}

In 2023, the watchdog group ILGA-Europe identified Poland's respect for LGBTI rights as the worst of all 27 EU countries.{{Cite web|last1=Picheta|first1=Rob|last2=Kottasová|first2=Ivana|date=October 2020|title=In Poland's 'LGBT-free zones,' existing is an act of defiance|url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/10/world/lgbt-free-poland-intl-scli-cnnphotos/|access-date=2020-10-15|website=www.cnn.com|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Country Ranking {{!}} Rainbow Europe|url=https://www.rainbow-europe.org/country-ranking#eu|access-date=2020-10-15|website=www.rainbow-europe.org}}{{Cite web |date=2023-05-11 |title=Poland still worst country to be gay in the EU: Report |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-still-worst-eu-country-to-be-gay/ |access-date=2023-08-05 |website=POLITICO |language=en}}

On 18 December 2019, the European Parliament voted (463 to 107) in favour of condemning the more than 80 LGBT-free zones in Poland. Parliament demanded that "Polish authorities (are) to condemn these acts and (are) to revoke all resolutions attacking LGBT rights". According to the EU Parliament, the zones are part of "a broader context of attacks against the LGBT community in Poland, which include growing hate speech by public and elected officials and public media, as well as attacks and bans on Pride marches and actions such as 'Rainbow Fridays'.".

Based upon numerous complaints that "some local governments have adopted discriminatory declarations and resolutions targeting LGBT people", the European Commission wrote to the governors of five Voivodeships – Lublin, Łódź, Lesser Poland, Podkarpackie, and Świętokrzyskie – on 2 June 2020, instructing them to investigate local resolutions proclaiming LGBT-free zones or a "Charter of Family Rights", and whether such resolutions constituted discriminatory actions towards LGBT-identifying people or not.{{cite web |url=https://notesfrompoland.com/2020/06/03/european-commission-intervenes-on-lgbt-ideology-free-zones-in-poland/ |title=European Commission intervenes on "LGBT free zones" in Poland |last=Wądołowska |first=Agnieszka |date=3 June 2020 |website=Notes From Poland |access-date=19 June 2020}}

The letter can be seen as an extension of the 2019 vote in the European Parliament condemning the zones, as it notes that failure by Poland to adhere to common values of the European Union of "respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities", as stated in Article 2 of the 2012 European Union Treaty{{cite web |url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:2bf140bf-a3f8-4ab2-b506-fd71826e6da6.0023.02/DOC_1&format=PDF |title=Consolidated Version of the Treaty on European Union |website=EUR-Lex |access-date=19 June 2020}} could result in the loss of EU funds granted to the Republic of Poland in the future, such as European Structural and Investment.

In July 2020, Commissioner Dalli announced that applications for EU-funded town twinnings from six Polish towns had been rejected because of their adoption of "LGBT-free" or "family rights" resolutions.[https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/29/eu-funding-withheld-from-six-polish-towns-over-lgbtq-free-zones euronews], July 2020

In her September 2020 State of the European Union speech, Ursula von der Leyen stated, "LGBTQI-free zones are humanity-free zones. And they have no place in our Union."{{Cite web|title=Press corner|url=https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en|access-date=2021-07-05|website=European Commission - European Commission|language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Jędrysik |first1=Miłada |title=Ursula von der Layen w PE o strefach wolnych od LGBT |url=https://oko.press/von-der-layen-w-pe-o-strefach-lgbt/ |access-date=16 September 2020 |work=oko.press |date=16 September 2020}}

In March 2021, on the initiative of the French MEP Pierre Karleskind,{{cite news| url = https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/159362/lgbtq-european-parliament-declares-european-union-lgbtiq-freedom-zone-viktor-orban-ursula-von-der-leyen-manneken-pis-jean-paul-gaultier-pierre-karleskind/ |language=en |title=European Parliament declares EU an LGBTIQ freedom zone|newspaper=Brussels Time|date=11 March 2020 }} the European Parliament declared the entire European Union an "LGBTIQ Freedom Zone" in response to the backsliding of LGBTIQ rights in some EU countries, notably in Poland and in Hungary.{{Cite web|date=2021-11-03|title=Parliament declares the European Union an LGBTIQ Freedom Zone {{!}} News {{!}} European Parliament|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210304IPR99219/parliament-declares-the-european-union-an-lgbtiq-freedom-zone|access-date=2021-07-05|website=www.europarl.europa.eu|language=en}}

In September 2021, the European Commission sent letters to several Polish regional councils indicating that EU funds will be withdrawn if they do not abandon their LGBT-free zone policy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.euractiv.com/section/non-discrimination/news/eu-warns-polish-regions-they-could-lose-funding-over-lgbt-free-zones/|title=EU warns Polish regions they could lose funding over 'LGBT-free' zones|date=7 September 2021|website=www.euractiv.com}}

The European Commission has blocked 150 million Euro funds for LGBT-free zones, and also blocked a 42 billion Euro payment from the Covid-recovery fund, due to Poland not obeying EU law.{{cite web | first=Monika | last=Pronczuk | title=Europe Tightens Purse Strings to Try to Pressure Poland and Hungary | website=The New York Times | date=24 September 2021 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/world/europe/hungary-poland-eu.html | access-date=24 September 2021}}

In January 2023, the Polish town of Świdnik abolished their LGBT-free zone in response to fearing that they would stop receiving EU subsidies.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=January 10, 2023 |title=Polish town yields to EU threat about LGBT free zones |url=https://cne.news/article/2363-polish-town-yields-to-eu-threat-about-lgbt-free-zones |access-date=2023-08-05 |website=cne.news |language=en}}

In February 2023, the European Commission ended its legal action against the LGBT-free zones.{{Cite web |last=Tilles |first=Daniel |date=2023-02-16 |title=EU ends legal action against Poland over anti-LGBT zones |url=https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/02/16/eu-ends-legal-action-against-poland-over-anti-lgbt-zones/ |access-date=2023-08-05 |website=Notes From Poland |language=en-US}}

In May 2023, the European Commission said that the LGBT-free zones would stop receiving EU funding if they continue their policies.{{Cite web |last=Kupemba |first=Danai Nesta |date=2023-05-17 |title=No EU cash for 'anti-LGBT' zones in Poland, commission confirms |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/17/poland-anti-lgbtq-zones-eu-funding/ |access-date=2023-08-05 |website=PinkNews |language=en-US}}

{{further|List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland}}

In February 2020, the French commune of Saint-Jean-de-Braye decided to suspend the partnership with the Polish city of Tuchów as a result of the controversial anti-LGBT resolution passed by the Tuchów authorities.{{cite news |url=https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/swiat/francuska-gmina-zrywa-partnerstwo-z-tuchowem-powodem-uchwala-o-lgbt/wqc90cs |title=Francuska gmina zrywa partnerstwo z Tuchowem. Powodem uchwała o LGBT |website=Onet.pl |language=pl |access-date=20 June 2020}}{{cite news |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/lgbt/une-ville-du-loiret-rompt-ses-relations-avec-sa-jumelle-polonaise-apres-ses-arretes-homophobes-6741218 |title=Une ville du Loiret rompt ses relations avec sa jumelle polonaise après ses arrêtés homophobes |date=17 February 2020 |newspaper=Ouest-France |language=fr}}{{cite web |url=https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/centre-val-de-loire/loiret/homophobie-saint-jean-braye-rompt-ses-relations-ville-jumelle-polonaise-tuchow-1788415.html |title=Homophobie : Saint-Jean-de-Braye rompt ses relations avec la ville jumelle polonaise de Tuchów |first=Yacha |last=Hajzler |date=16 February 2020 |website=France 3 |language=fr}} In February 2020, the French commune of Nogent-sur-Oise suspended its partnership with the Polish city of Kraśnik as a reaction to the passing of an anti-LGBT resolution by the city authorities.{{cite web |url=https://www.tokfm.pl/Tokfm/7,103085,25718116,kolejna-francuska-gmina-zawiesza-partnerstwo-z-polskim-miastem.html |title=Kolejna francuska gmina zawiesza partnerstwo z polskim miastem ze "strefą wolną od LGBT" |date=21 February 2020 |website=TOK FM |language=pl |access-date=20 June 2020}} In February 2020, the French region of Centre-Val de Loire suspended its partnership with the Lesser Poland Voivodeship as a response to the establishment of an "LGBT-free zone" resolution by the voivodeship's authorities.{{cite web |url=https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/region-centralny-dolina-loary-zawiesza-wspolprace-z-malopolska/7wk8r0s |title=Francuski region zawiesza współpracę z Małopolską. "Jawnie homofobiczna deklaracja" |website=Onet.pl |date=25 February 2020 |language=pl |access-date=20 June 2020}}{{cite news |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/zones-anti-lgbt-la-region-centre-val-de-loire-rompt-avec-la-pologne-02-03-2020-8270589.php |title=Zones anti-LGBT : la région Centre - Val-de-Loire rompt avec la Pologne |first=François-Xavier |last=Rivaud |date=2 March 2020 |newspaper=Le Parisien |language=fr |access-date=20 June 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.larep.fr/orleans-45000/actualites/zones-anti-lgbt-la-region-centre-val-de-loire-suspend-sa-cooperation-avec-malopolska-en-pologne_13751816/ |title="Zones anti-LGBT" : la région Centre-Val de Loire suspend sa coopération avec Malopolska en Pologne |date=25 February 2020 |website=La République du Centre |language=fr |access-date=20 June 2020}} In May 2020, the German city of Schwerte ended its city partnership with the Polish city of Nowy Sącz after 30 years of cooperation due to the town's adoption of a resolution discriminating against LGBT people.{{cite news |url=https://krakow.wyborcza.pl/krakow/7,44425,25960006,niemcy-zrywaja-wspolprace-z-nowym-saczem-powod-strefa-wolna.html |title=Niemcy zrywają współpracę z Nowym Sączem. Powód: akceptacja dla projektu Ordo Iuris |first=Angelika |last=Pitoń |date=20 May 2020 |newspaper=Gazeta Wyborcza |language=pl |access-date=26 August 2020}} In July 2020, the Dutch city of Nieuwegein as well as the French city of Douai ended their twin city agreements with the Polish city of Puławy due to a "gay free zone" proclamation made in the latter.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/16/dutch-city-ends-ties-with-polish-twin-declared-gay-free-zone-nieuwegein-pulawy |title=Dutch town ends ties with Polish twin declared 'gay-free zone' |first=Daniel |last=Boffey |date=July 16, 2020 |newspaper=The Guardian}}{{cite web |url=https://oko.press/francuskie-douai-zawiesza-wspolprace-z-pulawami-za-strefe-anty-lgbt-mer-przemoc-zaczyna-sie-od-slow/Francuskie |title=Douai zawiesza współpracę z Puławami za strefę anty LGBT. Mer: "Przemoc zaczyna się od słów" |first=Maria |last=Frankowska |date=March 2, 2020 |website=OKO.press |language=pl |access-date=July 16, 2020 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} On 12 October 2020, the Irish city of Fermoy ended its twin town agreement with Nowa Dęba after 14 years of cooperation as a reaction to the homophobic LGBT-free zone declaration adopted by the Polish city's authorities.{{cite web| url = http://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetrzeszow/irlandzkie-miasto-zrywa-wspolprace-z-nowa-deba-z-powodu-uchwaly-przeciw-lgbt/df6zbc6,79cfc278 |language = pl |title=Irlandzkie miasto zrywa współpracę z Nową Dębą z powodu uchwały przeciw LGBT |access-date = 2020-10-14}} On 13 November 2020, the Belgian municipality of Puurs-Sint-Amands suspended its 20-year-long partnership with the Polish town of Dębica because of the town's adoption of the Charter of The Rights of The Family, which discriminates LGBT people.{{cite web| url = https://www.onet.pl/informacje/korso24pl/belgijska-gmina-zawiesza-20-letnia-wspolprace-z-debica/3vcpp30,30bc1058 |language = pl |title=Belgijska gmina zawiesza 20-letnią współpracę z Dębicą |access-date = 2020-11-14}}

In July 2020, the European Commissioner for Justice and Equality Helena Dalli announced that six Polish cities which adopted the "LGBT-free zones" would not be granted EU funds related to financing projects within the EU twinning project framework as a direct consequence of their discriminatory policies directed against members of the LGBT community.{{cite news |url=https://wyborcza.pl/7,173236,26167874,eu-cuts-funding-to-polish-cities-declaring-themselves-lgbt-free.html |title=EU cuts funding to Polish cities declaring themselves "LGBT-free zones" |first=Bartosz T. |last=Wieliński |date=July 29, 2020 |newspaper=Gazeta Wyborcza |access-date=30 July 2020}} The decision met with criticism from the Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro, however, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen defended the decision adding that "Our treaties ensure that every person in Europe is free to be who they are, live where they like, love who they want, and aim as high as they want."{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/world/europe/LGBT-free-poland-EU-funds.html |title=Polish Towns That Declared Themselves 'L.G.B.T. Free' Are Denied E.U. Funds |date=30 July 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=31 July 2020}} However, on 18 August, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro announced that the town of Tuchów in southern Poland would now receive 250,000 zlotys ($67,800) from the ministry's Justice Fund, to compensate for the EU funding reversal.{{cite web |url=https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-poland-eu-lgbt/polish-lgbt-free-town-gets-state-financing-after-eu-funds-cut-idUKKCN25E1RH |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819022349/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-poland-eu-lgbt/polish-lgbt-free-town-gets-state-financing-after-eu-funds-cut-idUKKCN25E1RH |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 August 2020 |title=Polish 'LGBT-free' town gets state financing after EU funds cut |first1=Alan |last1=Charlish |first2=Pawel |last2=Florkiewicz |first3=Joanna |last3=Plucinska |date=18 August 2020 |website=Reuters}}

In September 2020, Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide, the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that the Polish municipalities which introduced the LGBT-free zones would be denied the EEA and Norway Grants whose aim is the reduction of social and economic disparities in the European Economic Area (EEA). Poland is the biggest beneficiary of these funds and could potentially lose millions of euros of financial aid.{{cite web| url = http://noizz.pl/lgbt/gminy-wolne-od-lgbt-nie-dostana-pieniedzy-z-funduszy-norweskich-krasnik-wycofa/k68p6pw |language = pl |title =Gminy "wolne od LGBT" nie dostaną pieniędzy z funduszy norweskich. Kraśnik wycofa uchwałę? |date = 20 September 2020 | access-date = 2020-09-21}} The suspension of funds only applies to the government bodies that have themselves adopted resolutions and does not apply to non-governmental organizations that operate in the LGBT-free zones.{{cite news |title=MSZ Norwegii: gminy "wolne od LGBT" nie dostaną funduszy norweskich |url=https://oko.press/gminy-wolne-od-lgbt-bez-funduszy-norweskich/ |access-date=23 September 2020 |work=oko.press}}

In September 2020, a group of MEPs published a letter addressed to the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in which they demanded to respect the rights of LGBTI athletes and expressed an idea to host the 2023 European Games, which had been scheduled to take place in Kraków, in a different location due to the region's LGBT-free zone status.{{cite web| url = http://gazetakrakowska.pl/igrzyska-europejskie-2023-europoslowie-przeciwni-organizacji-zawodow-sportowych-w-homofobicznej-malopolsce/ar/c2-15194884 |language = pl |title =Igrzyska Europejskie 2023. Europosłowie przeciwni organizacji zawodów sportowych w "homofobicznej" Małopolsce |date = 23 September 2020 | access-date = 2020-09-24}}{{cite news| url = https://www.reuters.com/article/poland-lgbt-sport-idUKL8N2GZ4VQ |language=en |title=Lawmakers criticise hosting of 2023 Games in Polish 'LGBT-free zone'|newspaper=Reuters |date=8 October 2020 |last1=Savage |first1=Rachel }}

In September 2021, three Polish regions repealed their own anti-LGBT declarations in response to the threat of a funding freeze from the EU, due to its anti-discrimination laws.{{cite web | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/28/world/polish-regions-repeal-lgbt-free-declarations-intl/index.html | title=Three Polish regions repeal 'LGBT-free' declarations | date=28 September 2021 }}{{cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/two-polish-regions-repeal-lgbt-free-declarations-2021-09-27/ | title=Three Polish regions repeal 'LGBT-free' declarations | newspaper=Reuters | date=27 September 2021 }}

In June 2022, following appeal from four voivodeship administrative courts which annulled resolutions relating to LGBT-free zones in 2020, the Supreme Administrative Court dismissed the appeals, agreeing with the voivodeship court's decision to remove the zones.{{cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polish-court-rules-that-four-lgbt-free-zones-must-be-abolished-2022-06-28/ | title=Polish court rules that four "LGBT-free zones" must be abolished | newspaper=Reuters | date=28 June 2022 }}

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• Anti-gender movement
• Rainbow Night
• Backlash (sociology)
• Censorship of LGBT issues
• Crime of apartheid
• Group Areas Act
• Judenfrei
• LGBT agenda
• LGBT history in Poland
• LGBT rights in Poland
• Moral panic
• Opposition to LGBT rights
• Political activity of the Catholic Church on LGBT issues in Poland
• No kid zone

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{{reflist}}

• [https://atlasnienawisci.pl Atlas nienawiści (Atlas of Hate)] - Map of anti-LGBT ideology Polish government resolutions
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9SwBihJVzY Tu nie chodzi o ludzi(This is not about people)] - a documentary film presenting fragments of political debates on so-called anti-LGBT resolutions
• {{cite journal |last1=Knecht |first1=Tomasz |title=Idea miast partnerskich wobec wybranych uchwał samorządowych w Polsce w latach 2019–2020 |journal=Rocznik Europeistyczny |date=2020 |volume=5 |pages=123–141 |doi=10.19195/2450-274X.5.8|trans-title=The idea of sister cities in view of selected local government resolutions in Poland in the years 2019–2020|doi-access=free }}

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