Poland's virulently homophobic president and prime minister, identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, have been feuding with former president Lech Walesa for years. This well-known animosity all started as a joke, says Walesa's son:

Despite the passage of time, Jaroslaw Walesa remains coy when it comes to the details of his father's joke that so enraged the Kaczynskis. It is widely known, however, to be a politically incorrect story of two brothers who arrive at a party - one with his wife and one with his "husband".

For Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who has suggested gay people should not be allowed to be teachers but is unmarried and lives with his cat and his mother, the "joke" proved unfunny enough to fuel a lifelong animosity against Poland's political icon.

For Lech Walesa's son, the story is proof only of one thing.

"It shows the Kaczynskis have no sense of humour," he said.

Must have hit too close to home: Jaroslaw's long been rumored to be a closet case.

Oregonian gays aren't the only ones getting organized.

As their parliamentary election rapidly approaching, Polish queens have compiled a list of political enemies.

Marek Ryszard and his allies have cataloged Poland's biggest meanings, including deputy minister Roman Giertych, who hopes to infuse his homophobic leanings into the nation's school systems.

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Homos the world over came together this weekend to celebrate the first annual Global Gay Solidarity Day.

American activist Michael Petrelis tells us that America, Canada, Mexico and Poland all saw activists come together to commemorate lost comrades and form a symbolic phalanx against homo-haters.

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The European Union loves European filmmakers.

They love them so much, in fact, the communications commission spliced together this sexy bit of continental self-promotion, which includes 18 couples - include a gay duo - getting down and dirty.

The commission's message get even more cheeky after the collective climax, when the screen reads, "Let's come together".

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An estimated 1.5 million party people lived it up at this year's Europride in Madrid. The revelers toasted Spain's government for its inclusion, including the government's 2005 passage of gay marriage and historic trans rights laws.

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• We saw a line of people waiting for the iPhone. They were all playing with their soon-to-be old phones. We think they're insane, as is the rest of the country.

• Talk about a tabloid wet dream: Francesca Hilton, daugher of Zsa Zsa Gabor and Paris Hilton's late grandfather, Conrad, called Zsa Zsa's current (ninth) husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, a faggot. von Anhalt's claim to fame, besides being married to Gabor, would be his claim that he fathered Anna Nicole Smith's baby. The icing - it went down outside a court house. And TMZ got it on video. Tune in for a special peek into Paris' future. (Cue splooge.)

• Mitt Romney's a cat person:

Romney placed his family dog, an Irish setter named Seamus, into a kennel leashed to the top of his station wagon for a 12-hour family trip from Boston to Ontario in 1983. Despite being shielded by a wind screen the former Massachusetts governor erected, Seamus expressed his discomfort with a diarrhea attack.

Romney claims the dog loved riding on the roof in a swirl of liquified shit: "He scrambled up there every time we went on trips." Scrambled? More like slid.

• London Pride ain't afraid of no car bombs. The parade marches on tomorrow. With a mock Eurovision to protest anti-gay nations.

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The Polish government wants nothing to do with the gays. Education minister Roman Giertych's hellbent on squeezing queers out of school programs, the government attempted to ban gay pride (it didn't work) and President Lech Kaczynski worries faggotry will lead to devastating depopulation.

Considering all this anti-queer sentiment, it comes as no surprise to hear that hordes of homos are vacating Little Britain-hating Poland for Britain.

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Remember when we told you about how Poland's state television cut a scene from British comedy, Little Britain?

Well, Andy Towle over at Towleroad also picked up the story and succeeded where we failed: he found the censored video. And now we're passing it on to you. Everyone send him a thank you note!

Towle seems to think it's not safe for work, which it may be if your work objects to old ladies asking if butt plugs come with batteries. Luckily, our doesn't. In fact, our boss man encourages such probing inquiries. Get it?

• Israel's Tourism Ministry just launched a "Proud" ad campaign aimed at attracting more gay visitors.

• Meanwhile, Israel's ultra-Orthodox population has vowed to protest this year's gay pride. Shocker.

• The ultra-Orthodox may not have to protest. Israeli Parliament is may consider a bill to ban all "dangerous" public gatherings.

• Homo author Brent Hartinger just released a new teen book, Dreamquest, which concerns a girl who discovers a movie studio that produces people's nightmares. It may not be gay, but it sure sounds queer.

• Poland v. The Teletubbies (and the 1990's).

• Lindsay Lohan wants the press to respect her rehab privacy. In related news, pigs started flying…

• A Kevin Federline scored tribute to Rosie O'Donnell's time at The View.

• Portuguese gay activists wag their finger at the Russian government over this weekend's shameful pride happenings. They also take some time to blast the distressingly quiet European Union and Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates, who appeared in Moscow yesterday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin:

The presence and silence of José Sócrates, the Portuguese prime minister, who was in Moscow and is about to take EU presidency, are [an example of] the double standard of the EU, whose rhetoric seems to be using human rights only when financial interests are not at stake.

And snap…

An estimated 5,000 people took to Warsaw's streets Saturday to celebrate the Polish towns gay pride. While the majority of Poland's Catholic citizens disapprove of homosexuality, the day passed by relatively peacefully. Past pride events have been marred by violence, but Saturday's only hit a few bumps as a few dozens protesters lobbed Biblical references and moral condemnations, resulting in a few arrests.

Parade organizer Tomasz Baczkowski praised his country's prideful progress:

This was the largest parade we've held in Poland. Polish society has opened its eyes and they know what democracy, equality and diversity mean.

Baczkowski's statements are only partly true. The march came days after the education minister put forth a series of anti-gay reforms.

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• Just weeks before he's to be sentenced for driving under the influence, British pop star George Michael has admitted he's addicted to drugs, but once again took some time to praise pot:

[My arrest] involves prescribed drugs and it involves a dependency on them and the tendency to chase one drug with another because of side effects.
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We could sit here with any number of policemen and doctors and they would all tell you if everybody who had a dependence on alcohol changed their mind and had a dependence on weed, the world would be a much easier place to live in.

We weep at your eloquence, dude…

• Warsaw mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz Walz took a stand against the homophobic government and said the town's Gay Pride will go on! We wonder what President Lech Kaczyński will have to say. Probably something in Polish. And not pleasant.

• Julie Enzer has something to say, "Gay Pride is not just poppers and blowjobs!" Only Enzer's version's a little longer. And persuasive.

• Anne Heche's soon-to-be ex-husband alleges the actress "has at times exhibited bizarre and delusional behavior". He obviously missed that whole alien abduction thing…

• Pam Anderson pissed off some paparazzi in Cannes. Apparently they were upset her tits showed up late for the red carpet and bounced away before striking properly perky poses. Poor paparazzi…

• It's just like the 400-pound gorilla in the room, only it's a 400-pound gorilla on the loose! A witness remarked, "Everyone was in panic, running away, screaming, wailing, screaming kids running around, I don't know what all, kids without parents—it was a total drama." Kids without parents and a 400-pound gorilla? That's not drama. That's some shit….

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Approximately 80 young protesters gathered outside the Polish embassy London yesterday to commemorate International Day Against Homophobia. The British Youth Council-backed, wide-eyed activists hope to counter Poland's increasingly homophobic internal policy.

Just yesterday, Polish education minister, the monstrous Roman Giertych unveiled his proposed education reforms. These anti-queer reforms, which Giertych and his conservative boss, President Lech Kaczyński, claim will help shield the children from sinful sexuality, have been condemned by a number of European politicians.

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Today's a very special day, reader. Well, yes, it's Thursday, which is sort of special, but more importantly, it's International Day Against Homophobia.

Seventeen years ago today, the World Health Organization officially removed homosexuality from its charter of diseases, neuroses and various bugs. Though WHO doesn't think you're sick, plenty of other people do.

International gays and gay supporters will take some time today to shake their fists in a push to decriminalize homosexuality, combat homophobia and vent their frustrations.

There are so many homophobes to choose from, so how do you know which way to wag the finger? Easy, you check out Human Rights Watch's Hall of Shame.

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Polish Education minister and lurch lookalike, Roman Giertych unveiled his controversial education reforms yesterday.

Among his conservative goals, Giertych hopes to pass an overarching ban on any discussion of homosexuality in the classroom. Not because he's homophobic, of course. He's simply thinking of the children:

It is only to protect youth from the propagation of views that threaten marriage, threaten family, and threaten the duties of school, which are to prepare one to fulfill family duties and the duties of a citizen.

Though eager to implement his plans, Giertych does not define "propagation". Rather, he describes potentially prohibited material as "every action that is dependent on the public presentation of a certain belief with the intention of convincing others to that viewpoint." The nebulous nature of his legislation has raised a few eyebrows.

European Parliament spoke out against Poland's politics earlier this year, at which point Dutch MEP Kathalijne Buitenweg questioned the nation's political responsibility: "The disturbing proposals to outlaw discussion of homosexuality raise serious concerns about the commitment to fundamental rights in Poland." Buitenweg isn't the only concerned citizen.

Human Rights Watch has posted a petition urging the Polish government to stop its policies before it's too late. Head on over and give it a go - the petition will be delivered Saturday, May 17, during the Warsaw Equality Parade.

This weekend's The World Congress of Families in Poland will be a veritable who's who of homo-haters. The Family Research Council, Concerned Women For America, the American Family Association, Focus on the Family and a slew of other conservatives will gather to discuss Europe's so-called slow decent into "post-modern West" hell.

From the Congress' website:

Europe is almost lost; to a demographic winter and to the secularists. If Europe goes much of the world will go with it. Almost alone, Poland has maintained strong faith and strong families, though even Poland comes under severe pressure to change. Poland has saved Europe before. It is likely she will save Europe again.

When they say "save", of course, they mean: eradicate any and all threats to the Christian, heterosexist agenda. No wonder they chose Poland.

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