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NEWS & LETTERS, June -July 2007Queer notesby Elise Participants marched to the cheers of bystanders in the first legal gay pride parade in Warsaw on May 12. For the past three years, former Mayor Kaczynski, currently Poland’s President, banned pride parades. The European Union’s Court of Human Rights ruled Kaczynski’s bans illegal. However, this year has also witnessed Poland’s State Prosecutor’s office ordering prosecutors in several municipalities to look into the conduct of gays and lesbians on unspecified charges of pedophilia. Education Minister Giertych’s has also unveiled a vague draft legislation criminalizing the promotion of homosexual propaganda in schools. * * * Action has been taken against the Jackson Township school district in Ocean County, N. J., after it was determined that not enough was done to prevent the harassment of a bisexual high school student. J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo, director of the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights, pointed out that school authorities were notified a number of times about the harassment. Officials of Jackson Memorial High School will challenge the state’s findings. |
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