WARSAW,
Poland (AP) -- More than 2,000 Polish gays, lesbians and their supporters are
marching through Warsaw in a yearly gay pride parade.
They were
surrounded by a massive showing of riot police protecting them from small
groups of counter-protesters.
Saturday's
march in Warsaw is one of many gay pride events planned for June in Europe and
elsewhere.
Poland's
gays and lesbians have slowly started to become visible in a society that has
long treated homosexuality as a taboo, partly due to the strong influence of
the Roman Catholic church.
Waving
small rainbow flags and carrying banners demanding equal rights and civil
partnerships, an estimated 2,500 people marched.
Some
open-platform trucks pumping techno and pop music and decorated in colorful
balloons also inched their way down Marszalkowska street, one of the city's key
boulevards.
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