In a landmark moment for LGBTQ rights in Central Europe, Warsaw’s city hall issued a marriage certificate to a gay couple for the first time, Der Spiegel reported. The move follows European legal rulings requiring Poland to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other EU member states.
Poland has long been one of the EU’s most resistant members on LGBTQ issues, with parts of the country having declared themselves “LGBT-free zones” in recent years. The Warsaw recognition — while narrow in scope, applying only to marriages already legal elsewhere in the EU — represents a crack in that wall and could set a precedent for future cases across the country.
