Thousands march for LGBTI rights in Warsaw amid rising hostility; Guardian, 6/11/16

Alex Duval Smith, Guardian; Thousands march for LGBTI rights in Warsaw amid rising hostility:

"Thousands of people have marched with rainbow flags through Warsaw in a sign of defiance against a rising tide of extremism under Poland’s nationalist Law and Justice government.

Speeches at the start of the Equality parade – which began at the symbolic Palace of Culture and ended with a “beach party” across the Vistula river – warned of LGBTI freedoms being at their lowest point for two decades in the staunchly Catholic country...

Hate crimes in the broadest sense – often carried out by nationalist extremists against immigrants – are on the rise in Poland. A report to parliament in April found that 1,548 such crimes were reported to the police in 2015 – close to double the number reported the year before."