foreign gays in Poland

Im going to visit Poland at the end of this month, just curious how locals see gay people, do you have problems with it? will we get bashed? do men there like latins? or hate them for their color? anybody any thoughts?

As a bunch of queers.

haha well that helps!

If you are staying in a big city, you should be OK, if you are visiting a small town, you might be stared at if you are holding hands with your partner and so on.

If you are flamboyant and loud you might attract some unwanted attention.

Stay safe and don't go out by yourself to places you are not familiar with. Use you common sense.

Great thanks for the tips, well actually im just going with my best friend, and are just avarage looking guys, not flamboyant or scandalous, so you cant tell haha...and we stay in krakow and warsaw..i gues we will be fine...

you should be more than fine. Enjoy your trip. Besides, you are not wearing a T-shirt " I am gay" when traveling, so there is really no way to telling, is there;)????

haha thats true, that would be a little overdone and ridiculous haha well im guessing we will have a lot of fun there,,,

you would have much more fun visiting nowa huta district during the night with 'im a gay' tshirts on

hahaha and why is that?

many young friendly people live there

sure, i truly believe you...hahaha you ******

Yip, and in Gdańsk, Warszawa or Poznań - contact local Młodzież
Wszechpolska representatives for a guided city tour :-)

to be honest sweety, you'll be in puff paradise, all the men have shaved heads, wear tight t-shirts and combat pants...they've just not worked out that they're gay yet ;0)

hahaha ah you guys are awefull (thought you make me laugh) i come here for tips and i get all kinds of crap...!

It's like you're in Poland already!

There's an old Polish saying: "A guest in the home, oh no!!! he's gay!!! get him out! get him out! get him out!!!!!"

(and to think some Polish people don't understand why so many western countries think of Polish attitudes as backwards...... the mind boggles)

hahaha is it that bad? huh and is it true all guys there are bashers and have shaved heads and army pants? haha just what i've heard here so far,,,enlighten me plz!

Actually things are probably worse now than five years ago.

Gaydar has never been part of the general Polish skill set (which meant that even very obviously gay people were not necessarily suspected of being gay*). Also there wasn't much idea that homosexuality was bad morally. Negative attitudes were more about it being statistically uncommon (Poland is a _very_ conformist country and most people want to like what other people like and are embarassed by even pretty trivial deviations from the norm).

Then a couple of Polish political parties picked up on the fact that gay-bashing was a road to electoral success in the US (Polish politics is generally more modelled after American than European models) and things went downhill.

Still, unless you actaully make out in public no one's liable to notice or care that you're gay. If you tell people you're gay, a certain amount of responses will be negative.

*and a lot of straight Polish men are born metrosexuals, vain about their appearance or clothes in ways that are very gay-seeming to westerners and a lot of straight Polish men are attracted to fashion styles that are very gay-seeming to westerners (though they'll feign distaste once they realize that tight leather pants and a bandana aren't macho after all).

wow, ok that sounds fair enough to me...but man im gonna be confused to recognize who is who :S

Hey mvefa!

You should use couch surfing website to contact gay people in Poland who want to host travellers and show them around! I'm going to Warsaw in the summer and have made a few friends from Poland through it!

Good luck in your travels :)

i went to wrocław and it was very nice, obviously if u dont act like a woman, everything is fine! i went to a nice gay club and the men were hott! poland is a nice place and i love wrocław :D

well duh haha we do not act like that...but were the guys there friendly or..?

yea very friendly... just relax and go see for yourself !!!!

Jesus Christ amlighty, gay invasion on PL ( just hope that garlik and holy water would work )

Advice for McCoy:
Please dont full yourself, come out of the closet..its better this way...

Come out of the closet and die young!

Or stay in the closet and become a Catholic priest so you can rape young priests as much as you want without any possibility of any punishment.

You guys are retarded, leave your hatred behind, it is really really 1940's, get on with the times, hatred against minorities are not acceptable anymore...

Some people would say calling someone a retard is also offensive.

why do you live in holland mvefa? something wrong with gay acceptance in latin america?

He did say he was Dutch with Latin American roots on another thread. So I would expect that is why he lives in Holland ?