Vote Out the Hate

NY Dispatch Day 120: As a gay man with Polish heritage it was unsettling to learn that Poland has reelected Andrezej Duda by a narrow margin. The right wing candidate plans to enact ever more conservative policies that will negatively impact the judiciary and the media. What is more distressing is that he came to power by running a campaign that featured his anti-LGBTQ+ bias; he was elected because of his discriminatory beliefs. Duda has been openly homophobic and has claimed LGBTQ+ ideology was...