Krystian Legierski has become Poland’s first openly gay elected official. The nightclub owner, entrepreneur and LGBT rights activist won a seat on Warsaw city council last month. The Green party member ran on a Social Democrat ticket. Mr Legierski, who is black, has suffered racism and homophobic but told Gazeta Wyborcza that although his election [...]

The European Court of Human Rights, yesterday  unanimously ruled that Poland had discriminated against a gay man by refusing him  the  right to succeed a tenancy of a flat where he had  lived with his partner,  whom had passed away. Mr Piotr Kozak had been living with his  partner from 1989 until 1998, when he [...]