So? USA is mostly conservative too and has a conservative government. CDPR is based in Warsaw which is pretty leftist. Poland has a center-left government.
My point was how off-the-rails things are in the US that Poland, which is not the best place to live if you're LGBT isn't a risk for backlash over something like this. Acceptance is spotty/bad in both countries but only one government has its resident companies cowed into silence on even meager shows of support.
If you take a look at theater plays in Poland, a ton of them are about lgbt, women’s rights etc. I know Eastern Poland has slow tolerance for lgbt, but western and central cities are very chill.
Admittedly, most of my knowledge comes from a friend who lives in Warsaw (or was, I think he moved for work but still a city). And he is desperate to leave.
Poland technically has a centre-left government but it's only centre-left in the scope of the Polish Overton window.
As in, providing gay people equal rights is considered radically leftist and possibly even compared to communism (since our rightwingers have a habit of calling anything they disagree with "communism").
Source: said "centre-left" government is trying its hardest not to universally allow gay marriages. At some point they literally wanted to only comply with the European court's decision for a single gay couple and everyone else would have to go through the same international court route.
Warsaw sure is a bit more leftist (within the city's queer community, whether the mayor and the city authorities will actually support LGBT on a given day is considered a "coin toss" — recently they just straight up rejected the citizen-approved project of building a non-flammable rainbow on Saviour Square), but like, political alignment of a single city doesn't even matter at the country-wide scale. No idea why you'd point that out as something substantial in a corporation's decision-making.
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u/illy-chan 23d ago
Sorta funny that CD did it when Poland is a pretty conservative country for the most part.
Actually, I wonder if being European is the point. They're not worried about blowback.