UK campaign targets 'LGBT-free zones' in Polish twin towns In recent years, Polish towns have drawn international condemnation for passing charters denouncing LGBT+ ideology. Now, a UK campaign is pushing back. Polish flags fly in London's Leicester Square during Pride 2018 Angry, young and desperate to express himself. This was how Jarek Kubiak felt when he left his Polish hometown of Lodz in 2006 to begin a new life as a gay man in the UK. Living in London, Kubiak avoided Polish people because he wanted to forget his closeted life back home. "I didn’t want to keep that Polishness in me," he told DW.