Warning: long post detailing the story

>What the actual f*ck Poland?!
So the whole story (as told by the extreme right-wing) goes like this. Warsaw as the capital of Poland is seen as something of a springboard for politicians wanting to go on to either countrywide or international politics. At the end of 2018 a new mayor (called "president" - the mayors of bigger cities in Poland are called "presidents") of Warsaw was elected in the course of standard local election which took place at the same time in all cities, towns, villages etc in Poland (everyone voting for a leader of their place - but people only really care when it comes to some selected biggest cities, with Warsaw being the absolutely most important one).
This new mayor is from the other Polish party (yes, in theory we have more then 2 and yet in practice in Poland there's the center-right-wing party and the extreme right-wing party with nothing else even being capable numerically of ruling on its own) which kind of tries to be progressive but always fails somewhat. During the campaign time in Warsaw (and other cities but they don't really count in the big scheme of things), LGBT activists decided that it would be good to ask candidates what they thought about LGBT issues and created "Karta LGBT" (a set of promises about actions which would at a local level give some semblance of normal European treatment of LGBT people). Every candidate was asked whether they'd sign it if they were chosen. This guy who'd later become mayor said yes. The elections were in November 2018, he signed it in February 2019 - for which he was criticized by the progressive side who considered it too long a delay.
And, of course, he also got criticized by the extreme right-wing.

This is how the LGBT-free zones started - as a "clever" idea how to block the signing of such a "card" in other places.

But this isn't the end. In July 2019 an artist started selling "vagina Virgin Marys" (https://i.wpimg.pl/1000x632/d.wpimg.pl/889745068--390674816/lgbt.jpg) and this enraged many catholics who viewed this as an attack on something they consider their highest good: their God/beliefs/etc. This prompted a second wave of LGBT-free zones, one which - in the text of the proclamations by local councils - was more subtle in the formulation of the text in that it was basically "we are catholics and we believe in the traditional model of a family as a God-given gift. The LGBT activists propose a new model. We are against it." - while also adding some more platitudes about defending religion (which? of course there's only one in Poland... If in Poland someone says "religion" without qualifying it, it does of course mean "Roman Catholicism") and similar drabble.

To make things more interesting, all of this started being gathered in an "Atlas of hate" (https://atlasnienawisci.pl/) and this made some (especially the more tourist-oriented) places angry - because apparently this is putting words in their mouths... Take a look here: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnowysacz.naszemiasto.pl%2Fstary-sacz-trafil-do-atlasu-nienawisci-za-rezolucje%2Far%2Fc1-7539985

And the EU doesn't step in - I guess that in part because those local proclamations started being written more "positively" in that they aren't now straightaway "proclaiming LGBT-free zones" but "defending the traditional model of family which is under attack by LGBT activists". And yet everybody knows.

[Also: if this wasn't obvious, I despise the practice and have actually contributed to the Atlas of hate by sending them informative materials.]