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Speaking up for LGBT rights in Poland
There has been shock across Europe to a number of towns in Poland declaring themselves LGBT-free. Brussels cut funding to those towns but the Polish government has now stepped in to plug the gap. Robert Biedroń is a Polish politician and MEP, who was former mayor of Słupsk, and is a LGBT activist. (Picture: Robert Biedroń, Polish MEP. Credit: Robert Biedroń)
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