KRASNIK, Poland ¨C When local councilors adopted a resolution two years ago declaring their small town in southeastern Poland ¡°free of LGBT,¡± the mayor didn¡¯t see much harm in what appeared to be a symbolic and legally pointless gesture.
Today, he¡¯s scrambling to contain the damage.
What initially seemed a cost-free sop to conservatives in the rural and religiously devout Polish borderlands next to Ukraine, the May 2019 decision has become a costly embarrassment for the town of Krasnik. It has jeopardized millions of dollars in foreign funding and, Mayor Wojciech Wilk said, turned ¡°our town into a synonym for homophobia,¡± which he insisted was not accurate.
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