The slow shift of the status quo
The slow shift of the status quo

Summary/Abstract: On September 16th 2019, the city council meeting room in Lębork (a town of about 40,000 people in the north of Poland) is full of media and observers from local civil society organisations. There are also two members of the Polish parliament (one from the ruling party, one from the opposition). The session is being broadcasted on the city’s website, but apart from that two television cameras are also recording. What made the Lębork city council meeting so popular was a proposed resolution titled “On the freedom of the Lębork Municipality from LGBT and gender ideology”. The project of the resolution was submitted by a group of inhabitants of Lębork under the name “Municipal Freedom Committee from LGBT and gender ideology”. The appeal was signed by about 700 town residents.

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