@ebel while Czech people might be tolerant, Poland is totally different in not a good way.

Poland elected a very right wing, Catholic government for example.

@kyzh im broadly aware, in principle. I'm from Ireland, traditionally Catholic,but you'd see pride flags. Sometimes countries can change. Sometimes not.... 😔 😔

@ebel @kyzh PL (according to Wikipedia at least) has traditionally had surprisingly enlightened LGBT attitudes even during Communist era : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Poland

LGBT venues may not display themselves as overtly in current climate; but I hope that decades of tolerance cannot simply just disappear overnight..

@vfrmedia @ebel well you'd be surprised.

I probably don't have the time to find you sourced stuff, but yeah, there is a lot of hate boiling in PL.

They have it all, the anti vaccine, anti immigration, the anti Woman's Right, the anti nature... it is all quite grim there at the moment.

That said I don't know Krakow, so it could be different there.
I would say the best is to ask people that are trustworthy and local, but masto didn't find you them I guess

@kyzh @ebel Alas its something I have been reading about (other folk on here *and* Polish folk in my town have explained what is happening in PL ) - I guess there are obv safety issues in making LGBT venues prominent w/rainbow flags etc (they don't even do do in my town in UK) but hopefully they *do* still exist even as some kind of "underground" culture. does worry me that once it was easy to share these "safe/cool spaces" online but now there are security risks too..

@vfrmedia @kyzh I get how you might not want to have a massive rainbow flag flying, but what about a small rainbow sticker or something? Would be horrible if the situation is that bad...

@kyzh @ebel Nah, Krakow should be all-right. Could be because I think they pay more attention to not clutter the center with cheap flashy ads, unlike Prague. But the attitudes there should be broadly similar.

@pony @kyzh I saw a fair amount of adverts and stuff in the city centre, so I'm not really buying the "tacky ads" bit. (Though it's easily possible the bigots are holding the LGBT community to harsher standards....)

Never fear Mastofriends! I found a gay bar in Krakow, Poland 🇵🇱. 🙌 🏳️‍🌈 One of the websites was correct, I must have missed it on my last hunt.

They aren't flying a pride flag outside. We asked and the barman said "Well, it's Poland..." 😐 so that's one data point. 😢 #LGBTQ

@bluebec yep, that was a page I was using. I went to some of the addresses listed there for gay bars, and saw nada... 😔. Maybe I'm just too unobservant? 😔

@ebel You might have missed this link https://www.travelgayeurope.com/krakow-gay-dance-clubs/