Krakow

Gay and lesbian travellers

In response to a conference covering homosexuality at the end of 2005, the station at Krakow was covered in posters demanding a stop to this "homosexual deviancy", with handy little pictograms so that even foreign "deviants" would get the message. Welcome to Poland, a country which is often quite forward about being backward. As usual there is a small and somewhat embattled but increasingly self confident gay community in Krakow. But don't expect any kind of welcome from the population at large.