Thousands march for LGBTI rights in Warsaw amid rising hostility

Campaigners say LGBTI freedoms are at their lowest point in staunchly Catholic country under nationalist Law and Justice governmentThousands of people have marched with rainbow flags through Warsaw in a sign of defiance against a rising tide of extremism under Poland’s nationalist Law and Justice government. Speeches at the start of the Equality parade – which began at the symbolic Palace of Culture and ended with a “beach party” across the Vistula river – warned of