Warsaw City Hall recognizes same-sex marriage for the first time

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Poland recognizes same-sex marriage for the first time

In March, the Polish judiciary decided that Poland must recognize same-sex marriages. This has now happened for the first time.

Warsaw City Hall says it has recognized a same-sex marriage celebrated in another EU country for the first time. This was closed in Germany eight years ago. “This morning we made the first registration” of a same-sex marriage, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski told reporters on Thursday. The two spouses, Jakub Cupriak-Trojan and Mateusz Trojan, for their part confirmed that they had received a copy of the Polish marriage certificate.

“We are pleased and hope that the next document transfers, which many couples are waiting for, will be issued without unnecessary delays,” they told the OKO.press website. The couple married in Berlin in 2018 and now want to settle in Poland. Her application had previously been rejected because, according to the Polish constitution, marriage is a union between a man and a woman.

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Poland’s Supreme Administrative Court ruled in March that same-sex marriages concluded in other EU member states must be recognized by the Polish state. In doing so, the court implemented the corresponding judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union from November 2025 into Polish law.

LGBTQ associations spoke of a “historic step” and a “turning point” in the traditionally very Catholic country. LGBTQ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer.

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose center coalition is divided over the rights of LGBTQ people, indicated on Tuesday that the administrative court’s move was imminent. The recognition of same-sex couples is “above all a question of human dignity and human rights,” explained Tusk.

Poland is – alongside Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia – one of the last European countries that has neither legalized same-sex marriage nor registered partnerships. According to human rights organizations, 30,000 to 40,000 same-sex couples from Poland have married abroad.

According to a survey by the polling institute Ipsos last year, only 31 percent of Poles are in favor of introducing same-sex marriage. However, 62 percent of those surveyed support some form of legal recognition of same-sex partnerships.