Warsaw Gays Ignore Pride Parade Ban (Threatened with arrest)

Warsaw Gays Ignore Pride Parade Ban

(Warsaw) More than 2,500 people ignored an order from the mayor of Warsaw and marched through the Polish capital Saturday.

Hundreds of police officers were on hand to keep order, but did not try to stop the march. Some officers joined in the parade to cheers from the marchers

Members of a right wing group got into skirmishes with marchers. At the beginning of the parade the group hurled insults at the marchers. Several rushed through a barricade in an attempt to beat marchers. Others lay down in the street in an effort to stop the parade. They were dragged to the curb by police.

Dozens of youths from a militant group were waiting as the marchers arrived at the Parliament buildings and pelted the crowd with eggs. Police struggled to try to regain order, but were vastly outnumbered.

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Warsaw Gays Ignore Pride Parade Ban

Yes, Do not forget what Polish gays did this day. They stood up to a tyrannical mayor and the Polish equivalent of the Fred Phelps gang. I am marking it on my calendar and writing about this event in my journal.

I would be there in a NY monite. It sounds like the cutting edge, like SF in the 60's.