Campaign Against Homophobia

Campaign Against Homophobia (actual name: Kampania Przeciw Homofobii, abbreviation: KPH) is a Polish gay rights organisation, which aims to promote legal and social equality for people outside the heteronorm. It was founded in Warsaw in September 2001. It has local branches in Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Tricity, Toruń and Silesia region. KPH and Lambda Warszawa Association, which often co-operate (for example within specially formed foundations that organise events like Warsaw Pride and Culture for Tolerance Festival in Kraków) are together the largest NGO organisations of this kind in Poland. Goals and activities KPH aims to contribute to establishing a tolerant society, in which gay, lesbian, transgender and other minorities feel comfortable. It undertakes activities in numerous fields: conferences, exhibitions, demonstrations, integration parties, workshops, meetings with politicians, academics, political lobbying providing legal and psychological counselling, inter alia at the internet portal www.mojeprawa.info publishing LGBT-rights quarterly Replika, publishing leaflets on various subjects, international human rights law and practice monitoring, cooperation with similar organisations from other countries and international bodies etc. KPH co-operates with other LGBT organisations associated at ILGA. Three members of KPH have been appointed to the ILGA-Europe executive board in Brussels: Lisette Campus,, Tomasz Szypuła,, and in 2013, Mirosława Makuchowska.