Gay couple fights prejudice and coronavirus in Poland by distributing rainbow face masks


  • World
  • Thursday, 23 Apr 2020

Gay couple Dawid Mycek and Jakub Kwiecinski pose with the rainbow-patterned face masks on a street in Gdansk, Poland April 8, 2020. The couple distributed 300 rainbow-patterned face masks as a gesture to help people to protect against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and to raise awareness of the situation for LGBT community in Poland. Jakub Kwiecinski and David Mycek/Handout via REUTERS

WARSAW (Reuters) - Married gay couple Dawid Mycek and Jakub Kwiecinski say they face frequent abuse in Poland for being part of a so-called "homosexual plague."

"So we thought that if we are dealing right now with a real plague (the new coronavirus) we could help protect people from this plague and do something good," said 37-year-old Kwiecinski.

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