Since it was built in 2012, the rainbow in Plac Zbawiciela in Warsaw has been vandalized and attacked numerous times. Like on November 11, 2013 – Poland’s Independence Day – nationalists burned the rainbow monument.

The rainbow was eventually taken down in 2015, when the license ran out. Now a new rainbow has been installed, one that can’t be burned down because it’s made of light and water.

The monument’s creators said it is “an unbreakable symbol of love, peace, LGBT rights and equality.” Turnout at Warsaw Pride this weekend may have been the highest ever.

According to Julita Wojcik, the artist who made the original rainbow, it wasn’t meant to be an LGBTQ symbol at all.

“The colors the rainbow on flags used in the past symbolized a new era, hope, social change, world peace and even, in Poland in the past, cooperation,” Wojcik said. But the far-right only saw it as an LGBTQ symbol and organized around attacking it. Read more via LGBTQ Nation

'Unbreakable' LGBT rainbow installation unveiled in Warsaw after far-Right attacks