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# Krakow funds LGBTQ+ shelter
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/krakow-funds-lgbtq-shelter/
- Published: 2021-01-04T09:09:36.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-03T13:18:47.000Z
- Description: Officials in Krakow, Poland, have funded a shelter for homeless LGBTQ+ people despite government hostility towards the queer community.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Politics, Andrzej Duda, European Union, Krakow, LGBTQ, LGBTQ+ free zones Poland, Poland, Warsaw

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/poland-lgbt-rights.jpg)

Officials in **Krakow, Poland**, have funded a shelter for homeless LGBTQ+ people despite government hostility towards the queer community. According to [**ABC News**](https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/polish-city-funds-lgbt-shelter-government-hostility-74985220?ref=scenemag.co.uk), local authorities are giving around $50,000 to the shelter which offers temporary accommodation and psychological support for up to 12 LGBTQ+ people. It is run by charitable foundation, **The Voice of the Heart**, but is reportedly struggling financially.

City funds are also due to be offered to an LGBTQ+ shelter Warsaw, the Polish capital, after mayor **Rafal Trzaskowski** signed a declaration of support for the LGBTQ+ community in 2019\. Opposition to LGBTQ+ rights has grown rapidly since the 2020 re-election of anti-LGBTQ+ president, **Andrzej Duda**, who vowed to crack down on what he refers to as ‘LGBTQ+ ideology’, causing some LGBTQ+ Poles to flee the country in fear.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/duda-poland-600.jpg)

Anti-LGBTQ+ Polish president Andrzej Duda

There are now over 100 so-called ‘LGBTQ+ free zones’ in Poland, which have all signed pledges agreeing to ‘oppose acts of tolerance’ towards the queer community. European Commission president, **Ursula von der Leyen**, publicly [condemned ](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/eu-official-demands-action-against-lgbtq-free-towns/)the creation of ‘LGBTQ+ free zones’, saying they have no place in the EU. Some of these towns have already been denied EU funding for town twinning, and hundreds of thousands signed a [petition](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/thousands-sign-petition-against-polands-lgbtq-free-zones/) demanding greater EU action against government hostility towards the LGBTQ+ community.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/polandlgbt600400.png)