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Three Women Face Jail Time for Rainbow Art at Peaceful Protest They were pushing back on a homophobic display and now face years in prison. January 15 2021 1:08 PM EST Three women went on trial on Poland Wednesday for publicly carrying posters showing the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus with rainbow halos in April 2019. According to a report in the Polish-language website “The immediate reason for our action was the homophobic and hurtful installation,” Podleśna told the court. Co-defendant Prus agreed, declaring the church display was “hatred, contempt, aggression.” The hateful display...

Three human rights activists went on trial in Poland yesterday for putting the LGBT rainbow on an image of the Black Madonna, a revered figure in Roman Catholicism. Elzbieta Podlesna, Anna Prus and Joanna Gzyra-Iskandar face up to two years in prison if found guilty of desecration and offending religious sentiment.  During protests in 2019, they replaced the halos in the icon of the Black Madonna and baby Jesus with the LGBT rainbow flag. The activists said they were rallying against what they saw as the hostility of Poland's influential Catholic Church toward LGBT people.  A group of supp...

Three human rights activists have gone on trial in Poland for alleged desecration and offending religious sentiment by adding the LGBT rights movement’s rainbow symbol to posters of a revered Roman Catholic icon and publicly displaying the altered image

PLOCK, Poland (AP) — Three human rights activists went on trial Wednesday in Poland for...