First homosexual marriage, recognized in Poland. Decision taken following the decision of the Court of Justice of the EU
Poland announced on Thursday that it recognized for the first time a homosexual marriage concluded in another European Union state, reports AFP, taken by Agerpres.
The mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, told the media that the institution he leads has made the first transcription of a document proving the said marriage.
Poland's Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) ruled in March that the Polish state must recognize a marriage registered in the EU, even if national law does not cover same-sex marriage. The court thus transposed into Polish jurisprudence a decision from November 2025 of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
The two spouses registered on Thursday, Jakub Cupriak-Trojan and Mateusz Trojan, confirmed that they received a copy of the marriage certificate. “We are happy and hope that the next transcriptions, awaited by many couples, will be carried out without unnecessary delays,” they told the OKO.press website.
Replika magazine, a publication that supports sexual minorities, welcomed “a historic and “changing moment” for the LGBT community in Poland.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk leads a centrist political coalition, in which opinions about sexual minorities are divided. He had suggested on Tuesday that the administrative decision of the capital's municipality was imminent and had appreciated that the recognition of homosexual couples is “above all a matter of human dignity and human rights”.
The Trojans married in 2018 in Berlin and intended to settle in Poland, but the Warsaw city hall refused to register their marital status, because the Polish Constitution defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The decision of the CJEU allowed overcoming the administrative obstacle for them as well, and – theoretically – for all those married in other EU countries.
However, the situation remains unchanged for Polish citizens of the same sex who want to conclude a civil union or marriage in their country: there is no legal framework for such acts.
Human rights organizations estimate the number of homosexual marriages concluded by Poles abroad at 30-40,000.
Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and Slovakia remained the only states in the European Union that did not legalize either homosexual marriages or civil unions between persons of the same sex.
An Ipsos poll last year showed that only 31% of Poles support the legalization of gay marriage, but 61% are in favor of some form of legal recognition of those unions.
