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# Poland appoints anti-LGBTQ+ education minister
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/poland-appoints-anti-lgbtq-education-minister/
- Published: 2020-10-06T14:15:49.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-05T13:48:48.000Z
- Description: The Polish government has appointed anti-LGBTQ+ university professor and MP Przemyslaw Czarnek as the new education minister.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Politics, All Out, Andrzej Duda, Eu, LGBTQ, LGBTQ free towns Poland, Poland, Ursula von der Leyen

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The Polish government has appointed anti-LGBTQ+ university professor and MP **Przemyslaw Czarnek** as the new education minister. Czarnek was presented as part of the new cabinet on Wednesday 30 September, triggering backlash from opposing politicians with former foreign minister **Radoslaw Sikorski** branding him a ‘homophobe’. During the 2020 summer election campaigns, Czarnek[ reportedly](https://infosurhoy.com/news/lgbt-ideology-rooted-in-marxism-nazism-polands-new-education-minister-believes/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) said *“these people are not normal people”* in reference to the LGBTQ+ community.

According to **[The Washington Post,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/polands-right-wing-ruling-party-has-found-a-new-targetlgbt-ideology/2019/07/19/775f25c6-a4ad-11e9-a767-d7ab84aef3e9%5Fstory.html?ref=scenemag.co.uk)** Czarnek awarded medals to anti-LGBTQ+ politicians in the province of Lublin, and openly supports the creation of ‘LGBTQ+ free zones’ in the country. It is estimated there are now 100 of these zones in Poland, and despite some losing EU funding as a result, local authorities in **Kraśnik** [voted](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/lgbtq-free-zone-votes-to-continue-its-anti-queer-policies/) to continue their anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

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Andrzej Duda

Around 350,000 signed an **All Out** [petition](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/thousands-sign-petition-against-polands-lgbtq-free-zones/) demanding the **EU** protect LGBTQ+ Poles, with head of the European Commission **Ursula von der Leyen** already condemning the Polish government’s attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ community. Hostility towards the LGBTQ+ community has grown since the recent [re-election](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/polands-anti-lgbtq-president-re-elected/) of anti-queer president **Andrzej Duda.** Much like Czarnek, Duda has referred to ‘LGBTQ+ ideology’ as something that needs to be eradicated.

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