Polish LGBTQ+ activists, who founded the “Atlas of Hate” project, have won a legal victory against Przasnysz county authorities after an appeals court in the Polish city of Białystok threw out a case against them.
The activists who have faced multiple lawsuits for drawing international attention to Poland’s discriminatory “LGBT-Free Zones” have faced numerous lawsuits since launching “Atlas of Hate.”
“Atlas of Hate” is an interactive map of Poland that identifies areas where local authorities have adopted discriminatory “family charters” or declared themselves free from “LGBT ideology.”
The latest legal victory by the activists follows a December 2022 decision by courts in Opoczno and Tarnów counties, who also dismissed two other cases brought by local authorities against the project.
Seven localities with anti-LGBT policies sued the founders of the “Atlas of Hate” for defamation, demanding public apologies and 280,000 zloty (NZ$100,000) for calling their regions “LGBT-Free Zones.”
The lawsuits were supported by lawyers from the ultra-conservative organisation Ordo Iuris, which championed the “LGBT-Free Zone” resolutions, along with the nation’s current ruling party, which aims to “protect” Poland from “LGBT ideology.”
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