Poland Elects First Openly Gay Official (and he’s Green)
December 15, 2010 in International Greens, Social & Economic Justice
Interesting story from Gay City News (Thanks Dave):
In an historic first for the country considered the most Catholic in Europe, Krystian Legierski became Poland’s first openly gay elected official when he was elected to Warsaw’s City Council in country-wide municipal elections on November 21.
Not only is Legierski, a 32-year old lawyer, entrepreneur, gay activist, and Green Party leader, a well-known figure in the Warsaw gay community, he is also black.
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Legierski was elected under proportional representation as a Green candidate on a coalition ticket led by Poland’s Social Democratic Party from a Warsaw district he describes as “rather upscale and conservative.” In the new 60-member City Council, the conservative Civic Platform party of Prime Minister Donald Tusk will have 33 seats, the intensely homophobic and ultra-nationalist Law and Justice Party — founded by the Kaczynski brothers — will have 17 seats, and the left opposition, of which Legierski is a part, will have ten seats.
Fascinating article, highly worth reading it all here.
Jarrod Henry said on December 15, 2010
Awesome to hear!
Every time you think the world is getting worse, you step back and look at someone like Krystian Legierski. Black. Gay. Liberal.
It doesn’t get more on the edge than that :)