“We’re trying to get some funding from the national fund, but it’s really difficult to get,” Prykowski laments. “For example, we asked the national archives for a grant, but because of the scope of the NGO … As we said before, the whole discourse about history is in the hands of the right-wing parties, so everything that’s connected with LGBT, it’s not interesting, it’s not sponsored.” This is certainly consistent with the political discourse that emanates from Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. PiS co-founder Lech Kaczyński — the former President who died in the 2010 Smolensk plane crash and is often considered a national hero by the Polish right-wing — banned the 2004 and 2005 pride parades while he was the Mayor of Warsaw, on the grounds that he did not respect the rights of gay people to demonstrate and that he feared the parade would promote a ‘homosexual lifestyle’. Another PiS politician, Bartosz Kownacki, once referred to the “Tęcza” rainbow in Warsaw as a ‘faggot rainbow’. Without the support of government funding, the virtual museum has instead turned to other museums and cultural organisations — such as the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the History Meeting House, and the KARTA Center — for workshops on oral history, archiving and how to protect their materials.