#kampania przeciw homofobii

[polish-art-tournament]

photography round 1 poll 14

the series Let them see us by Karolina Breguła, 2003 [pictured: example works]:

propaganda: This art was part of a social campaign organised by NGO Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (The Campaign against Homophobia) and featured 30 photographs showing same-sex couples holding hands.

more works in the series here and here

in 2023 the artist made a follow-up project about rainbow families, using ai (so that it wouldnt endanger any real life queer families living in poland)

The Golden Gate Bridge from the Postcards series by Joanna Pawlik, after 2010:

submitted description: a postcard photo showing the artist with their back to the viewer with the golden gate bridge in the background. the artist only has one leg

propaganda: For me the art comments on the inheriant political act that is even just existing in public spaces as a disabled person, so much of society would like to get rid of us, or at least not have to look at this, but this photos scream I am here, to me, and more so; I can go here, I can move as I want and you will not stop me.

[sadfrogexe]

Hi, today on my bestie school one of teachers give students task about problems in our country and one of 'the worst' problems for that teacher was homosexuality which in his eyes was like murder so i and my friends would like to do something to show all LGBT+ community im our schools that they valid and loved if you have any ideas please write im comments

Thank you all very much

Love ya and stay strong

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Hej, dzisiaj w szkole mojej przyjaciółki jeden z nauczycieli zorganizował zajęcia których tematem były tematy problemów w Polsce które trzeba rozwiązać, jako jeden z najgorszych podał homoseksualizm który porównał do morderstwa, więc ja i moi znajomi wpadliśmy na pomysł żeby zorganizować w swoich szkołach coś żeby pokazać wszystkim osobom LGBT+ że są kochane i cudowne takie jakie są, jeśli macie jakieś pomysły na to co moglibyśmy zrobić proszę piszcie w komentarzach

Bardzo dziękuję

Kocham was i proszę dbajcie o siebie i pamiętajcie że jesteście ważni

💜💙💚💛🧡❤️

[theworksofshanyu]

Trying to convince Polish people born outside of Poland that it's shit in Poland and that there are human rights violations going on is like trying to teach astrophysics to an infant.

[silentdeor]

stop bullshit, stop queerphobia, stop violence!

LGBTQAI+ riots in Poland

cw: violence against trans women, violence against lgbtqai+ people, police violence, sexual abuse, institutionalised queerphobia, state violence, p*land

for my Dear Followers, and everybody who’d like to help the LGBTQA+ community in p*land, this hell of a country!

this is the “stop bzdurom” fb profile on which the activists post videos and texts. occasionally there are posts in English, but even if you don’t know a single polish word - you can still support the initiative with a like! it’s hugely appreciated! love and respect know no language boundaries!

their activist, Margot, has been literally kidnapped by the police in the middle of the capital city. other people who attended demonstrations are being arrested with no cause given. our basic human rights are being violated, but we will not give up. Solidarity with Margot, no matter what!

this is the official page of Campaign Against Homophobia, a very effective organisation that promotes free and safe access to sexual education, vows for equality for every human being, fights nationalism and xenophobia and helps lots of LGBTQAI+ people survive. with the police’s violence and provocations spreading, their actions are crucial. their aim is to eliminate the language of abuse from public discourse, boost knowledge about the noncishet society and provide safety for those who are likely to lack it now.

here’s their twitter - KPH_official

here’s their instagram - kph_official

you can also find them on fb

and they even have a youtube channel!

here you can donate for the “stop bullshit!” radical feminist queer collective. 

they need money for Margot’s and other LGBTQAI+ people’s cases, for organising decent education on our community and for defending themselves against the nationalist overflow of hate, abuse and violence. if you have a euro or a dollar to spare, please consider spending it on this fund. every “złotówka” counts as money against the religion-motivated conservative fundamentalism!

here you can sign a petition “free Margot, NOW!” - yes, petitions don’t work, but i’ve signed for Margot to see that she has a friend in me. she is being kept in prison for high rate offenders with male inmates, she has been molested and she really needs psychological support!

[aces-nrw]

International Call to Solidarity with the Polish LGBTQIA+ Community!

TW Queermisia Police Violence explicit Homomisia & Transmisia Conversation Therapy Hunger Strike Imprisionment

I would like to comply with the request that came from the gathering of the Ace Organizers International (further information at the end of this text). I hereby want to take on my responsibility and use my reach as an activist for queer rights, speaking from my position within the asexual community (and if even possible, „on behalf of the German acespec …“ after consultation with fellow activist and cross-regional organizer Lea) and, as a person with German-Polish citizenship, to show my solidarity and support for the fight for queer human rights in Poland.

I hope this message will find you well, dearest warriors, and you see this as a sign of hope for you are not alone in this. Your efforts, your actions are not in vain. You shall know that we wont ignore what has been done to you and your people. And what is still happening to this very day. Our thoughts, our hearts and our deepest hopes are with you!

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The current situation in Poland has been described as quite critical for queer people. Poland is a very conservative country with a strong hold of anti-progressive, ultra Catholic influences, who aren’t just hate-mongering in their rhetoric only, but are also to blame for vile verbal and physical attacks on people „read/perceived as queer“ in public by anti-LGBTQIA+ organizations they have helped to build (f.ex.: so-called Saint Michael’s The Archangel Special Forces), according to reports.

The climate is dictated by right-wing nationalists, anti-LGBTQIA + hate speech and propaganda spread by politicians; queerness is vilified as „ideology“ (hence the hashtag #NieJestemIdeologia – ‚[I] am not an ideology‘ used on social media), seen as a tool for recurring communism, even as a new plague (Euronews) of leftist ethos or portrayed as the influence of foreign powers to be „fought against“. Blatant lies are making their rounds, such as that sex education in schools „would make children queer„, and not few believe and publicly call for queer people to undergo „conversation therapy„ (x). Meanwhile, the streets are patrolled by a truck that hatefully equates queerness, especially homosexuality, with child abuse (Washington Post, 08.08.).

Margot in particular, non-binary activist from the Kolektyw Stop Bzdurom (Stop Bullshit Collective), was at the focus of this very hatred (Mannschaft Magazin 09.08.), especially just after being recently release of the previous imprisonment, through explicit transimic coverage from the Polish Media (e.g. via @.radio_ZET und @.PolsatNewsPL). The collective drew attention to the situation for the Polish queer community particularly by flying rainbow flags on local statues and monuments. In the very first interview (VOGUE) after being taken into custody, which many LGBTQIAP + people see as illegitimate and politically motivated, and one hunger strike, Margot criticizes not only the right-wing, but also liberal media and politicians who are condemning the actions and methods of local Polish queer activists. While some of them are seemingly pro LGBTQIA + rights, those only support equal rights under the conditions of playing by respectability politics („ale tylko póki jesteśmy potulni, grzeczni icichutko czekamy, aż ktoś łaskawie uzna nas za ludzi. Klasyczne „Jesteśmy sojusznikami, ale…„ translation: „But only as long as we docile, politely and calmly wait for someone to graciously recognize us as human beings. Classic ‚We are allies, but … ‚“).

For the Polish mainstream the active, visible, loud and proud uprising of LGBTQIAP+ people is considered a hostile affront to the status quo, a war declaration against the „good and righteous people“ of some sort. This very notion of suppressing and de-legitimizing queer demonstrations stems from an ultra-catholic faithfulness in which humility must be upheld as a virtue and any rebellion to be denounced as abstruse blasphemy.

The media often references the oh-so-democratic Poland and its threatened order by rioting queer people, although we know that extreme right-wing, fascist powers have been gaining strength in Poland for a long time now (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2013) and it’s undermining any positive progress and ultimately even its own constitutional legality (Deutsche Welle and TAZon the threat to the independence of Polish courts). It were the so-called “LGBT + free zones” mainly (Pinknews and Human Rights Watch about the violation of the constitution through such anti-queer smear campaigns), that have made many of us abroad truly aware of the inhuman and threatening situation for Polish queer people.

President Duda and his right-wing populist ruling party PiS regularly contribute to the fact that queer people in Poland experience an uncanny degree of dehumanization. These „representatives of the people” violate human rights (AP, 08.08. , taz, 17.04.20; BBC 15.04.20; Human Right Watch using the example of restricting and dismantling of abortion rights and bodily autonomy; TW cis – & endonormativity // rape). These systematic repressions, especially against activists for LGBTQIAP+ rights, have been reinforced with the help of police violence for years now (Margot: „Takie sytuacje zdarzają się od lat – jesteśmy spisywani bez powodu, policja nie reaguje na przemoc wobec nas, a chroni homofobiczne ciężarówki.„; Politico, 05.08.; Mannschaft Magazin 09.08).

You saw what had happened to human rights defender and activist Elżbieta Podleśna after her “Our Lady of Equality” artwork – the rainbow iconography of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa. She is now being defamed as an “enemy of the people” and is threatened with imprisonment (taz 30.06.20; Amnesty).

ILGA Europe has created an „Anti LGBTI Timeline“ with brief depiction of the most recent history of anti-queer attacks in English. I found it very helpful for a short overview for those of you interested.

The international community, especially at the political level, can no longer accept the abuse and oppression of queer people in Poland or even dare to counter it with weak, ineffective phrase as a mere wagging finger.

It needs more than that!

I would like to call for you all to stick up for the people in Poland who are affected by state repression, violence and hostility. Please act in the capacities manageable and possible for you; show your queer siblings that they are not left behind! These inexhaustible, brave struggles for emancipation are immensely important and beyond historical importance. Let these courageous people know that we are by their sides and they do not fight this battle alone.

The request for backup and awareness comes from Marta from the Polish asexuals‘ association Asfera (Instagram: @asfera_polish_asexuals, facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edukacja.aseksualna ; https://www.facebook.com/aseksualizm) to collectively highlight local campaigns and Polish organizations (don’t forget to tag them if you write/ tweet / post something) and to support them in their fight for queer human rights!

Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (KPH) (Campain Against Homophobia)

Twitter: @kph_official ; https://twitter.com/kph_official

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lgbt.kph/

Kolektyw Stop Bzdurom (Stop Bullshit Collective)

Twitter & Instagram: @stopbzdurom https://twitter.com/stopbzdurom

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stopbzdurom/

You can make donations for legal fees (available in German and English): https://www.firefund.net/stopbzdurom

Miłość Nie Wyklucza (Love does not exclude)

Twitter: @milosc_https://twitter.com/milosc_

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Miloscniewyklucza

#LGBTtoLudzie #MuremZaMargot #JestemLGBT #JestemLGBTQIA

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[darkfalcon-z]

“On the brink of pogrom – wake up call for the government and the Church!”

My dudes, a KPH petition appealing to Polish Catholic Church and Polish Government to stop spewing homophobic venom, which brought us to the verge of massacre

[knowledgesecondary]

It's my birthday today, reblog with your best Don Lothario pics

[littlevirago]

Polish people in a silent protest It will be better with you here in Warsaw on 26.06.2020 against hate, discrimination, violence, and dramatic injustice the LGBTQIAP+ community faces every day in Poland.

We are the change, and the change lies in our hands

To make that change, we humbly ask for your attendance, because we know, that

It

Will

Be

Better

With you here

With us, side by side, as one of the colors of the rainbow,

The rainbow, which colors are love, strength and the change

The change for the better

Photos by: Karol Grygoruk, Zuza Krajewska, Dorian Górski

All the credits for sharing the information go to Kampania Przeciw Homofobii

[room-archive]

By now, some of you might have heard about the situation in Poland. The following text was posted on FB by a Polish friend of mine following the events of 07. August 2020 in Warsaw. It describes what happened, and the context of what led to the events of yesterday. Please reblog and share this post to spread awareness about the current situation.

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For a very long time it has not been easy for me to write and talk about my country. Publicly, for a very long time I haven't. Disagreeing with most of what the current government stands for, that would have become a full-time job. Feeling that one is powerless, one can easily become indifferent and either emigrate abroad or immigrate inside to the bubble of like minded friends, trying to just go on with life regardless, to wait out the storm, to hope for the world to change one day on its own. I am guilty of doing both. But yesterday, I believe that Poland came to its turning point. We went to sleep in a troubled democracy and woke up in an authoritarian country that uses the full force of the state apparatus to oppress and unjustly prosecute members and allies of the LGBT+ community.

No good person can stay indifferent facing these circumstance.

General context:

👉 It all began members of the activist collective "Stop Bzdurom" (eng. Stop the Bullshit) spray-painted and cut the tires of an anti-abortion van. This van was taped with graphic images of dead fetuses and frequently driving through the streets of Warsaw. While the activists spray painted the van, the driver intervened and it came to a light physical quarell with pushing and elbowing. This is the video of this altercation: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1324521857722944&id=137358556439286

👉 On the basis of that, the Public Prosecution (which is under total political control in Poland - the Minister of Justice IS the Attorney General) decided to press charges of violent assault and destruction of property against one of the members of the collective - Margot. Margot identifies as a non-binary person (it will be important later in the story). Under those charges Margot could face up to 7 years in prison.

👉 Some weeks ago, Margot was dragged out of her apartment by police in civil clothing. At that point, police refused to give any information about her whereabouts or charges. It took many hours to establish that she was taken to the prosecution office for interrogation and to provide her with a lawyer. The prosecution filed for two months of arrest, awaiting trial. The court initially denied prosecution's request and released Margot. At that stage, this story could have ended as yet another, relatively harmless episode in our disfunctional democracy - unjust and infuriating of course, but at the end smoothened out by the somewhat independent parts of our judiciary.

👉 In between that and yesterday, the same collective hanged rainbow flags from monuments in Warsaw. One of those was a statue of Jesus. This was follwed by a wave of arrests under the charges of "desecrating monuments and offending religious feelings". The arrested were charged while our prime minister and president were visiting desecrated monuments and placing commemorative flowers.

And then yesterday happened:

👉 The prosecution appealed the court's denial to put Margot under arrest. Another court, for reasons still unclear, reversed the decision and decided to put Margot in jail for two months before any trial. There could not possibly be any reason to make such a decision legitimate. Margot is a special case because Polish arrest and correctional facilities are an extremely dangerous place for a (visibly) queer person like her.

👉 When Margot learned of the decision, she happened to be in the office of the biggest Polish LGBTQ+ NGO - Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (eng. The Campaign Against Homophobia). With the police on the way to arrest her (quite symbolic, isn't it), a few NGO’s asked people to gather in front of the office in a demonstration of solidarity. A few hundred people and plenty of journalists showed up, including multiple members of parliament from left and center opposition parties.

👉Margot decided that if she has to go, she won't just go quietly but as publicly as she can. She walked through the demonstration up to the police officers, offering herself to be taken away. They refused to arrest her. We thought they got scared of the public support and the cameras. It looks like we couldn't have been more wrong.

👉 The spontaneous demonstration moved to a nearby allegedly desecrated monument. There, peacful demonstrators were met by an excessively large police force seperating them from the monuments. And then someone has given an order to make an example out of demonstrators and turn the arrest into a show of power.

👉 First, an unmarked car approached. A bunch of police officers in civil clothing dragged Margot inside. For all that has happened later the crowd remained non-violent.

👉 Then, demonstrators sat down around the car to prevent it from leaving. (see Photo) The police attacked with an unprecedented brutality. Tens of undercover police officers arrived and together with their colleagues in uniforms they begun brutally attacking, beating, suffocating and throwing the demonstrators into police cars driving away with them. All that during broad daylight, in front of TV cameras. Without any shame or hesitation. Multiple photos of police brutality bellow. All questions about the basis of the detention were met with laughter. The protestors were not even called upon to disperse. Just faced with violence for the sake of power - no law, no order. TV cameras have caught police officers giving eachother orders to arrest "three random people from the crowd". Bystanders and people passing by were also arrested.

Yesterday in Warsaw is was enough to be in a wrong place, wrong time. We witnessed a straight up round up.

👉To paint the picture of the excess of the police brutality in more detail, I'll quickly describe one of the detentions. During that whole time, MPs (Member of Parliament) were present at the site. Now, they hold immunity from being arrested, but I don't believe anyone in Poland ever imagined that this immunity would have to be used in such a way. Among the photos below, there is one of a blonde woman, holding her hand on the back of a demonstrator, who's being pushed to the ground by the police. That women is an opposition MP who left yesterday's protests injured by the police and described in detailes what had happened. She saw police officers throwing the protester in the picture to the ground and kneeing her down. Her head was bleeding on the pavement. The MP run torwards them screaming to let go and pushing the police away. She lied down on the protester to guard her with her own body. Only then the police let the MP to put her purse under the bleading head of the protester (seen photo) and take care of the head-wound. The protester was then taken away by the police to an unknown location. That story is just one among many horrifying stories from yesterday.

👉 Later, noone knew where exactly the detained people were taken. We guess that around 50 people were arrested.

50 political prisoners.

Police has been refusing any information. The demonstration has moved under the main police stations and the second wave of random arrests happen (you can see it on the video: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=295720058542451&id=107750507339408).

👉Members of parliament and attorneys have been present at the police stations all night trying to get any information and to provide legal help to the detainees. In order to prevent this contact, police has started to move the arrested people out of Warsaw- a tactic straight up from the harshest repressions of the communist times. On one of the photos below you can see two MPs standing in the way of a police van in the middle of the night to prevent that from happening. People were being dragged out of the police stations to the transport vans. They were shielded on the way to the car by other police vehicles to make identification impossible. Few of them managed to scream out their last name. Attorneys were immediately requesting access to their clients, and were met by police officers bluntly lying that such a person was never there.

👉 To paint the picture in more detail, again, of what was happening on the police stations- below you have a photo of a lady reading a piece of paper standing in a window with bars. That's yet another Polish MP, reading a list of the people being held at that particular station to the desperate families searching for their loved ones.

As for today, we are still unsure about what is going to happen.

We know that the arrested people are being presented with bullshit charges, citing ”the participation in an illegal gathering with an aim of violently assaulting a person or a property". Those charges don't stand on any grounds - not only we have photos and videos - the whole peaceful protest was on live TV.

We know that the Polish Ombudsman and the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture has started visiting the police stations.

We know that the first international institutions have started to speak out. Example is in the photos below. With the gravity of what is happening, I'd urge for more and sooner.

Poland is not living up to any standards of a free country. Poland is below anything, that should ever be accepted within the European Union. The long-standing aspiration of my country to become a part of the "West" has shifted towards countries like Russia in a matter of a night.

I will fight this, my friends will fight this. We will not let this go gently into silent night.

But I am not sure how much more fight we have in us.

I'll end with asking all of you abroad for support. Let people in your countries hear about this. We in Poland may not be enough.

[polish-art-tournament]

photography round 2 poll 15

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Follow me, change me, it's time by Zuzanna Janin, 1997:

submitted description: a group of women from behind standing in a line, the youngest the closed to the viewer and then each woman is gradually older down the line

propaganda: When I saw it I had to think of this english poem by Larkin "This be the verse" which goes "They fuck you up, your mum and dad./[...]But they were fucked up in their turn/By fools in old-style hats and coats," the poem is humoristic and suggest not having children of your own to end the circle of abuse, this art seems to take a bit more hopeful approche, our past inprints on us, but we can change, and do better, I like that.

the series Let them see us by Karolina Breguła, 2003 [pictured: example works]:

propaganda: This art was part of a social campaign organised by NGO Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (The Campaign against Homophobia) and featured 30 photographs showing same-sex couples holding hands.

more works in the series here and here

in 2023 the artist made a follow-up project about rainbow families, using ai (so that it wouldnt endanger any real life queer families living in poland)

[kendallspussy]

Katarzyna Zillmann (Tokyo 2020 silver medalist in rowing) and Jolanta Ogar-Hill (Tokyo 2020 silver medalist in sailing) pose in T-shirts with the slogan "Sport against Homophobia" as part of a campaign organized in 2019 by Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (Campaign Against Homophobia), a social organization working for LGBT+ people in Poland.

Both are outed lesbians and Jolanta is married to Esperanza Hill, a Spaniard.

[lordendsavior]

Kampania Przeciw Homofobii - KPH

Lambda Warszawa

Miłość Nie Wyklucza

Grupa Stonewall

Háttér Society

Magyar LMBT Szövetség

via cielesne

[aces-nrw]

Aufruf zur internationalen Solidarität mit Polens LGBTQIA+ Community!

International Call to Solidarity with the Polish LGBTQIA+ Community!

TW Queerfeindlichkeit Polizeigewalt Homofeindlichkeit Transfeindlichkeit Konversationstherapie Hungerstreik Haft

Ich möchte der Bitte nachkommen, die uns aus der Zusammenkunft internationaler Asexueller (Ace Organisers International) erreicht hat. So will ich hiermit meine Verantwortung wahrnehmen und meine Reichweite als Aktivistx für queere Rechte zu nutzen, in meiner Position innerhalb der asexuellen Community (und sofern überhaupt möglich, „stellvertretend“ in Absprache und gemeinsam mit Mit-Aktivistin und überregionaler Ace-Organisatorin Lea) sprechen und mich als Mensch deutsch-polnischer Staatsbürgerxschaft mit dem Kampf um queere Menschenrechte in Polen zu solidarisieren!

Ich hoffe, es erreicht Euch, liebe Kämpfenden, als ein Zeichen von Hoffnung, dass ihr nicht alleine seid. Dass Eure Bemühungen und Aktionen nicht vergebens bleiben. Dass wir nicht ignorieren, was Euch angetan wurde und wird. Unsere Gedanken und Herzen sind bei Euch!

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Die momentane Lage wird von queeren Menschen als sehr kritisch wahrgenommen. Polen ist ein sehr konservatives Land mit noch immer sehr starkem Einfluss von anti-progressiver, ultra-erzkatholischer Seite, die Erfahrungsberichten nach nicht nur rein rhetorisch gegen queere Menschen hetzen, sondern auch für die Gründung von Anti-LGBTQIA-Organisationen (u.a.: die selbst-ernannten Saint Michael’s The Archangel Special Forces) zu verantworten, welche in den Straßen „queer-gelesene“ Menschen verbal und körperlich angreifen und terrorisieren.

Die stark rechts-nationalistisch durchtränkte Stimmung schlägt sich nieder in der Verbreitung von anti-LGBTQIA+ Hassrede und durch Politiker_innen verbreitete Propaganda; Queerness wird als „Ideologie“ verunglimpft (daher der auf sozialen Medien eingesetzte Hashtag #NieJestemIdeologia – ‚[Ich] bin keine Ideologie‚), als Werkezug für wiederkehrenden Kommunismus, gar neue Plage (Euronews) linker Gesinnung gesehen oder als Einflussnahme ausländischer Mächte dargestellt, die „bekämpft“ gehöre. Lügen werden verbreitet, so etwa, dass die Sexualaufklärung in Schulen als Mittel „dazu diene, Kinder queer zu machen„. Es wir gefordert, dass queere Menschen sich „Konversationstherapie“ unterziehen zu haben müssen. Währenddessen patrouilliert ein die Straßen abfahrender Truck durch die Städte, der Queerness, insbesondere Homosexualität mit Kindesmissbrauch gleichsetzt (Washington Post, 08.08.).

Besonders Margot, nicht-binäre aktivismusbetreibende Person vom Kolektyw Stop Bzdurom (sie/ihre Pronomen) war vermehrt im Foku dieses Hasses und der Gewalt (Mannschaft Magazin 09.08.) und erfuhr gerade nach der kürzlichen Freilassung nach zuvoriger Haft eine Menge übergriffige Transfeindlichkeit durch die polnischen Medien (z.B via @.radio_ZET und @.PolsatNewsPL). Das Kollektiv (übersetzt: Stop Bullshit Collective) machte dabei insbesondere durch die Beflaggung von Statuen und Denkmälern auf die Umstände der polnischen queer Community aufmerksam. In Margots erstem Interview (VOGUE) nach der Gewahrsamnahme (die viele LGBTQIAP+ Leute als unrechtmäßig und politisch motiviert sehen) und einem Hungerstreik, kritisiert Margot darin neben den rechten auch die liberalen Medien und Politker_innen, die die Vorgehensweise und Methoden der Queer-Aktivismusbetriebende in Polen verurteilten. Zwar seinen einige pro LGBTQIA+ Rechte, aber eben nur unter Umständen, die von Respectability Politics getränkt seien („ale tylko póki jesteśmy potulni, grzeczni icichutko czekamy, aż ktoś łaskawie uzna nas za ludzi. Klasyczne „Jesteśmy sojusznikami, ale…„; Übersetzung: „aber nur solange wir fügsam, höflich und ruhig darauf warten, dass uns jemand gnädig als Menschen erkennt. Klassiker „Wir sind Verbündete, aber …“).

Der polnische Mainstream sieht es als Affront und offene Anfeindung an an, dass das legitimes Aufbegehren der LGBTQIA+ Leute diese aktiven, sichtbaren und nicht länger zu ignorierenden Züge annimmt. Diese dahinter verborgene Taktik der Medienschaffenden, die queeren Demonstrationen zu unterdrücken und zu delegitimieren, ist u.a. aus der Feder einer ultrakatholischen Glaubenstreue entsprungen, in der Demut hochgehalten wird und jegliche Rebellion als abstruse Gotteslästerung angeprangert wird.

Oft wird sich dabei auf das ach-so-demokratische Polen bezogen, welches durch das Nicht-Weiter-Still-Hinnehmen der queeren Menschen in seiner Ordnung bedroht würde, wobei wir wissen, dass schon seit längerer Zeit extrem rechte, faschistische Mächte in Polen erstarken (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2013) und jeglichen positiven Fortschritt und letztlich die eigene „Rechtsstaatlichkeit“ untermauern (Deutsche Welle und TAZ über die Gefährdung der Unabhängigkeit polnischer Gerichte). Gerade die so genannten „LGBT+ freien Zonen“ (Pinknews und Human Rights Watch über die Verletzung der Konstitution durch derartige anti-queere Schmierkampagnen) haben viele von uns international erst aufhorchen oder aufmerksam werden lassen, wie menschenverachtend und bedrohlich die Lage für polnische queere Menschen wirklich ist.

President Duda und seine rechtspopulistischen Regierungspartei PiS tragen regelmäßig dazu bei, dass queere Leute in Polen ein unheimliches Maß an  Entmenschlichung erfahren müssen. Diese „Volksvertreter_Innen“ treten den Kampf für Menschenrechte mit Füßen (AP, 08.08. , taz, 17.04.20;  BBC 15.04.20;  Human Right Watch am Beispiel der Abbau und Einschränkungen des Rechts auf körperliche Selbstbestimmung bei Abtreibungen bzw. Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen; TW cis- & endonormativ // rape). Diese bestehende Unterdrückungen, gerade gegen Aktivismusbetreibende für LGBTQIA+Rechte, werde durch die seit Jahren existierende Polizeigewalt nun jetzt noch weiter verstärkt (Margot: „Takie sytuacje zdarzają się od lat – jesteśmy spisywani bez powodu, policja nie reaguje na przemoc wobec nas, a chroni homofobiczne ciężarówki.„; Politico, 05.08.; Mannschaft Magazin 09.08).

Ihr habt gesehen, was nach der Aktion „Our Lady of Equality“ – Regenbogen-Ikone der Schwarzen Madonna von Częstochowa von Aktivistin Elżbieta Podleśna passierte: Sie wird nun als „Volksfeindin“ diffamiert und ist nun von Inhaftierung bedroht (taz 30.06.20; Amnesty).

ILGA Europe hat eine Anti LGBTI Timeline erstellt, die noch einmal kurz und anschaulich auf Englisch die verachtende jüngste Geschichte anti-queerer Attacken darstellt. Ich finde es für einen flüchtigen Überblick sehr hilfreich.

Die international Gemeinschaft, insbesondere auf politischer Ebene, kann die Misshandlung und Unterdrückung queerer Menschen in Polen nicht länger hinnehmen oder gar mit schwachen, ineffektiven Phrasen, die nicht mehr als einem gehobenen Zeigefinger gleichen, entgegentreten. Es braucht mehr als das!

Ich möchte dazu aufrufen, Euch starkzumachen für die Menschen in Polen, die von den staatlichen Repressionen, Gewalt und Anfeindungen betroffen sind. Zeigt es auf Eure Weise und nach Euren Möglichkeiten. Diese unerschöpflichen, mutigen emanzipatorischen Kämpfe sind unheimlich wichtig und von immenser historischer Bedeutung. Lassen wir die Menschen wissen, dass wir an ihrer Seite sind und sie nicht alleine lassen!

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Die Bitte um Awareness und Support um die Situation queerer Menschen in Polen stammt von Marta von der Polish asexuals‘ association Asfera (Instagram: @asfera_polish_asexuals, facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edukacja.aseksualna bzw. https://www.facebook.com/aseksualizm), damit wir kollektiv große Kampagnen und Organisationen aus Polen sichtbar machen (wenn ihr etwas schreibt, tweetet, postet – taggen nicht vergessen!) und sie im Kampf um queere Menschenrecht zu unterstützen!

Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (KPH) (Campain Against Homophobia)

Twitter: @kph_official ; https://twitter.com/kph_official     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lgbt.kph

Kolektyw Stop Bzdurom (Stop Bullshit Collective)

Twitter & Instagram: @stopbzdurom https://twitter.com/stopbzdurom Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stopbzdurom/

Oft mit Möglichkeiten für Anwaltskosten zu spenden (auch auf Deutsch und Englisch): https://www.firefund.net/stopbzdurom

Miłość Nie Wyklucza (Love does not exclude)

Twitter: @milosc_https://twitter.com/milosc_ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Miloscniewyklucza

#LGBTtoLudzie #MuremZaMargot #JestemLGBT #JestemLGBTQIA 

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LGBT PEOPLE IN POLAND NEED YOUR HELP

Today, I was at a demonstration to protest queerphobia in Poland and show solidarity with Margot and people who were attacked and kidnapped by the police yesterday (August 7). 

If you are unaware, Margot is a non-binary activist who uses she/her pronouns and yesterday she was arrested after ‘vandalizing’ a truck that’s been spreading anti-LGBT and pro-life propaganda and driving the streets of Warsaw for months despite the fact that it’s illegal. When the police showed up to arrest her, dozens of protesting activists tried to block the police car which resulted in many arrests as the police got aggressive towards the crowd and started to attack the protesters. The representatives of the left as well as local activists and volunteers spent the entire night trying to find out where the police took the arrested people and what is going to happen to them next. 

A year ago, I was at a protest very similar to this one after the first Pride march in Białystok was attacked by what can only be called as an angry mob. People were throwing glass, bottles and stones at the marching crowd, shouting slurs and attacking people after the march.

In Lublin, also in 2019, a married couple tried to bring a hand-made bomb with the intention of hurting and maybe even killing people who participated in the local Pride parade. 

The so called LGBT-free zones have been created. 

The president who was recently reelected publicly called LGBT people an ideology and is using dehumanizing language.

Things keep escalating.

Things keep getting worse.

We are here and we are living it. There is no stopping the hatred now and with the way things are it’s only going to get worse. Spread the word. Support Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (Campaign Against Homophobia), one of the Polish organizations which is actively fighting for the rights of LGBT people. Check if there are protests near you and go if you can. Don’t trust the propaganda spread by media and instead follow the activists and people who were actually there, often recording the events. Reach out to local LGBT organizations and check how you can help or what kind of help you can get if you or someone close to you gets arrested. Stay safe. 

WE ARE NOT GIVING UP

WSZYSTKICH NAS NIE ZAMKNIECIE! 

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Pic I did for a hetalia zine which sadly got cancelled today The theme was Poland through the ages All the profits from the zine were to be donated to Kampania Przeciw Homofobii kph.org.pl and the organisator did a donation in the zine's name

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Hello everyone! Thanks to your support, we donated $236.89 to Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (Campaign Against Homophobia)! You can read more about them on their website or their Wikipedia! Thank you all so much ♥♥