A letter sent to the European Economic and Social Committee by a group of cross-party MEPs fighting for LGBTi rights expresses fears that a recently-appointed Polish member may try to undermine those rights.
Some two dozen MEPs are raising concerns over Polish anti-LGBTi influence within the EU's smallest institution.
The alert concerns the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), a Brussels-based institution that describes itself as a conduit for civil society.
The MEPs are part of a cross-party coalition that seeks to defend LGBTi people, co-chaired by Luxembourg's centre-left Marc Angel and Germany's Green Terry Reintke.
They are upset that Poland has sent an individual with a dubious CV on LGBTI-rights to the EESC, who was then assigned to a group dealing on diversity.
The EESC diversity group handles issues like gender equality and gay rights.
But the Polish member, Tymoteusz Adam Zych, appears to have a history that goes against such issues, say the MEPs.
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That Poland now trying to foist the homophobia of the Polish government and Catholic Church upon the rest of the EU.