Poland's Gay and Trans MPs Take A Seat Against Bigotry
Gay and transgender members of the same political party in Poland coordinated a protest after a former president's homophobic and transphobic statements.
BY MICHELLE GARCIA
MARCH 10 2013 1:44 PM EThttp://www.advocate.com/news/world-news/2013/03/10/polands-gay-and-trans-mps-take-seat-against-bigotry
Lech Walesea and Anna GrodzkaThe first openly gay and transgender lawmakers to serve in Poland sat in the front row of Parliament earlier this week after a former president said that LGBT members should sit "behind a wall."
The members' protest came after former Polish president and Nobel Prize laureate Lech Walesea made the homophobic and transphobic statement last week, according to the Associated Press. Anna Grodzka, Poland's first transgender federal lawmaker, and Robert Biedron, the country's first gay federal lawmaker, sat together on the front bench after their party's leader Janusz Palikot relinquished his seat at the front to arrange this protest.
