The representatives present shared their deepest concern with the practice of using lawsuits to resolve issues in the LGBT community.

This has created a negative image of the media, particularly in such cases where parties in conflict are important ‘organs’ of gay society (such as associations, foundations, portals, and clubs or community leaders).

Representatives of gay media declared their disapproval of such practices, and offered their assistance in negotiation between parties, who prefer mediation and are willing to resolve conflicts in the community amicably.

This constructive meeting between the representatives of the LGBT media, who have had conflicting interests, certainly proved that it is possible to resolve conflicts in the community in a friendly way.

At the end of meeting, representatives of the media agreed that it would be useful to build stronger liaisons, on many levels, which would result in higher professionalism in sharing and providing information, education, and entertainment to the gay and lesbian community in the future.

Attending the meeting were the magazines Adam, AYOR and Gejzer, while representing the electronic media were Egay.pl, Fellow.pl, Gay.pl, Gaylife.pl, Gejowo.pl, Innastrona.pl and Polgej.pl.

■  Łukasz Pałucki is the International Lesbian and Gay Culture Netrwork Ambassador to Poland.  He co-ordinated the meeting.