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AUTHORS Siri Gloppen Lise Rakner
The perfect enemy: From migrants to sexual minorities Why does Poland´s conservative government, the Law and Justice Party, lounge an attack on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people (LGBT) as part of their 2019 European Parliamentary elections campaign? The ruling nationalist party aims to stem a decline in its popularity ahead of the elections by arguing that the opposition’s support for sex-education that recognizes LGBT people, is a threat to Polish culture and should be stopped. Poland’s governing party is far from alone in seizing on sexual minorities for mobilization purposes.