Działalność społeczna w III sektorze na przykładzie szczecińskiego stowarzyszenia Równość na Fali

The author concentrates on the social activity in the third sector, analysing the Szczecin association ‘Równość na Fali’, a local organisation, which acts against the discrimination of the sexual minorities in the West Pomeranian Voivodship. The proposed thesis of the article is that the rights of the sexual minorities provoke strong emotions and controversy, which makes it difficult for the NGOs to function, but at the same time the NGOs themselves become indispensable. The article raises the context of the postulates expressed by a local organisation with reference to the nationwide postulates of the LGBT community. The objective of the article was to find connections between the NGO’s activity and the political action undertaken by its members. Thus the analysis of the association has included its relations with the political sphere.