Plenary session: Public discrimination and hate speech against LGBTI people, including LGBTI free zones

Public discrimination and hate speech against LGBTI people, including LGBTI free zones (B9-0234/2019)

I voted in favour because LGBTI-free zones are unacceptable, as it goes against all international and EU human rights laws. Furthermore, non-discrimination is a fundamental right enshrined in the Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

The adopted text denounces, in particular, the “free zones” in Poland. Since the beginning of 2019, 80 regions, counties or municipalities have passed resolutions “free from LGBTI ideological thinking” and discriminating against single-parent and LGBTI families. These practices only have the effect of further marginalizing an already fragile community.
This resolution also takes stock of current trends in the EU and has raised discrimination in the form of attacks on LGBTI social centers in several Member States, homophobic statements and hate speech against this community particularly in the context of elections, or the adoption of legal instruments to unduly restrict freedom of expression in relation to LGBTI issues (in the media or in schools, for example).
The European Parliament strongly condemns these measures and calls on Poland to repeal resolutions that attack the rights of the LGBTI community, in accordance with its national law and in view of its obligations under international and EU law.

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