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Polish capital to allow gay march and counter-rally
Thu Jun 1, 3:04 PM ET
AFP

Municipal authorities gave permission for a gay rights march to be held in Warsaw June 10, and allowed far-right activists who oppose homosexual practices to hold a counter-rally the same day.

The two marches are to be held at the same time and along the same route, but in different directions.

Organisers of the "Equality Parade" say they expect around 1,500 people, many from abroad, to take part in the demonstration and voice their support for gays in Poland, who complain they are victims of intolerance.

Claudia Roth, head of Germany's Green Party, and Volker Beck, a German Green deputy who was attacked Saturday during a banned gay demonstration in Moscow, are expected to take part in the Warsaw rally.

The ultra-Catholic, nationalist Polish Youth organisation hopes around 500 people will turn up the same day for a counter-demonstration to protest against the "propagation of homosexuality" and to voice support for family values.

In 2004 and 2005, Warsaw mayor Lech Kaczynski -- who was appointed Polish president in December -- slapped a ban on the Equality Parade.

Several thousand people defied the ban last year and marched through the centre of the capital. Courts later ruled Kaczynski's ban was illegal.