''Gazeta Polska'' ( lit.: ''Polish Newspaper'') is a

Polish language Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In ad ...

pro- United Right

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weekly magazine published in

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Profile and history

Gazeta Polska was founded in 1993 and its editor-in-chief is

Tomasz Sakiewicz Tomasz Józef Sakiewicz (born 31 December 1967, in Warsaw) is a Polish activist, journalist, publicist, and the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Polska ''Gazeta Polska'' ( lit.: ''Polish Newspaper'') is a Polish language pro- United Right right-wing ...

. Its contributors include: Piotr Lisiewicz, Jacek Kwieciński, Eliza Michalik, Robert Tekieli, Krystyna Grzybowska, Maciej Rybiński, Jacek Łęski, Piotr Semka, Jerzy Targalski,

Marcin Wolski Marcin Wolski (born 22 July 1947 in Łódź) is a Polish writer, journalist and satirist. Member of the communist PZPR party from 1975 to 1981. As a journalist, he writes for ''Wprost'', '' Gazeta Polska''Waldemar Kumór, "Czy musiało do tego ...

Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski Tadeusz Bohdan Isakowicz-Zaleski ( hy, Թադևոս Վարդապետ Իսահակյան-Զալեսկի, translit=Tadevos Vartapet Isahakian-Zaleski) is a Polish Roman Catholic and Armenian Catholic priest, author and activist. Born in 1956, in ...

(2011–2014) and Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz. The print and e-edition circulation of ''Gazeta Polska'' was 40,660 in August 2014. The description of its political orientation ranges from ''conservative'' to ''right-wing'', '' extreme right-wing'' and ''nationalist'' on the ''far-right''. ''Gazeta Polska'' is said to offer "a good representation of the sympathies of PiS supporters". ''Gazeta Polska'' maintains a number of clubs (''Kluby Gazety Polskiej''), which are located not only in Poland, but also abroad, in places where Polonia is present (

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). The clubs organise meetings with writers, politicians and public figures, rallies and demonstrations. On 15 March 2012 ''Gazeta Polska'' organized "The Great Trip to Hungary" (''Wielki wyjazd na Węgry''). A reserved train left Warsaw Central Station, stopping on the way to Hungary at

Radom Radom is a city in east-central Poland, located approximately south of the capital, Warsaw. It is situated on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been the seat of a separate Radom Voivodeship (1975� ...

Kielce Kielce (, yi, קעלץ, Keltz) is a city in southern Poland, and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the ban ...

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula, Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland un ...

Tarnów Tarnów () is a city in southeastern Poland with 105,922 inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of 269,000 inhabitants. The city is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999. From 1975 to 1998, it was the capital of the Tarn� ...

and

Nowy Sącz Nowy Sącz (; hu, Újszandec; yi, Tzanz, צאַנז; sk, Nový Sonč; german: Neu-Sandez) is a city in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship of southern Poland. It is the district capital of Nowy Sącz County as a separate administrative unit. It has ...

. Altogether, 3,000 people went to

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, to demonstrate in support of

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. On 1 March 2019, French minister of Higher Education

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complained to the Polish government for the fact that the New Polish School of Holocaust Scholarship seminar held at the

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, in Paris, has been roughly disrupted "on a very organized manner" by Polish activists for the "Gazeta Polska" weekly. Vidal further stated that Polish state representatives (

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) supported the disruption.Colloquium on the Shoah disturbed in Paris: France challenges Poland
AFP (Radio France Internationale reprint), 1 March 2019
English translation at lzb.lt
/ref> In 2019, ''Gazeta Polska'' announced plans to distribute stickers proclaiming an "

LGBT-free zone LGBT-free zones ( pl, Strefy wolne od LGBT) or LGBT ideology-free zones ( pl, Strefy wolne od ideologii LGBT) are municipalities and regions of Poland that have declared themselves unwelcoming of what they described as " LGBT ideology", in orde ...

" to its readers. ''Gazeta Polska'' said it would include the stickers, which feature an image of a black cross over a Pride flag alongside the slogan. On 25 July, a District Court in Warsaw ordered the ''Gazeta Polska'' weekly to withdraw the anti-LGBT stickers from circulation. However, the editor of the magazine dismissed the ruling saying it was "fake news" and censorship, and that the paper would continue distributing the sticker. ''Gazeta Polska'' continued distribution of the stickers, but modified the decal to read "LGBT Ideology-Free Zone". In July 2020,

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, Poland's largest media chain, refused to stock ''Gazeta Polska'' after it issued the stickers. In August 2019, a show organized by the ''Gazeta Polska Community of America'' scheduled for 24 October in

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in New York was cancelled after complaints of anti-LGBT ties led to artists pulling out of the show.

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