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Last week the IGLYO Gender Conference took place in Krakow, Poland. Thursday morning these nice fellow kept us company outside of the hostel. Bypassers received leaflets containing homophobic texts - the same texts that Hitler used during the II World War to express his feelings about Jews.

It all looked a bit said, actually some people even mentioned that the posters looked quite funny. Looking the guys in their eyes made me realise they were more afraid than I was.

When I was in Krakow in April a Gay Pride was forbidded. The gays that gathered in the city centre walked through the city silently. Whilst we were sitting on a terrace, drinking coffee, an egg was thrown to us.

In comparison to the recent events in Poznan (where 62 activists were brutally arrested by the police!) it's all not much. But realising that people take the energy to bring eggs to the city, or to make signs and print leaflets, I must say it feels disguishting.