." >> reporter: welcome to pulawy.rking-class polish town about 85 miles south of warsaw is among some 50 municipalities in the country that have officially declared their opposition to l.g.b.t.s. we're meeting david socha, a 20-year-old activist who lives here, to find out what it's like to be gay in a city whose leadership has publicly come out against his community. >> they enacted a statement about "stopping the ideology pushed forward by the l.g.b.t. subculture." so, they are basically calling l.g.b.t. people a subculture, and that this subculture has an ideology. >> reporter: the declaration is part of a broader push by the ruling right-wing populist law and justice party to pull poles toward so-called traditional values, and erode democratic norms in the process. the hallmark of the campaign has been the assertion that l.g.b.t. people don't actually exist. according to law and justice, it's simply an ideology. in practical terms, for socha, this has meant avoiding certain parts of town where he's afraid of getti