When I wrote earlier this week about the EU Declaration on LGBT human rights, I referred to heavily Catholic Poland as an example of strong resistance to equality. That was an oversimplification. A Hungarian reader, Kal, noted that
There are serious homophobic tedences not only in Poland unfortunatly. The situation is similar in all country of Central and Eastern Europe, whiche belonged to communist block previously. I wrote a short article about this topic in kaleidoscope.blog.hu.
Kal is correct, and his caution should be noted. however, the situation is Poland is also more nuanced than I suggested. Even without the EU declaration, there are some remarkable changes in public sentiment, as I discovered when doing some background digging follow up on a report on proposals for civil unions in Estonia.
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