FILE PHOTO: Pro-LGBT demonstrators hold a giant rainbow flag during a protest against hatred towards LGBT people, in the centre of Warsaw, Poland, August 30, 2020. Kuba Atys/Agencja Gazeta via REUTERS
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish politicians should stop stigmatising LGBTI people, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights said in a memorandum published on Thursday, adding that such behaviour risked legitimising homophobic violence.
Poland's ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party made battling what it calls "LGBT ideology" a key plank of election campaigns in 2019 and 2020 in a bid to rally core religious conservative voters.
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