#muremzastopbzdurom

[old-fashioned-lovergirl]

Poland be like:

[dilaila95]

[maymaiart]

bierzcie i jedzcie z tego wszyscy

[gupikowska]

Standing in solidarity with LGBT+ people in Poland fighting for their basic human rights.

[jurian-is-cinnamon-roll]

What if we kissed on Defiladowy Square in the middle of a protest against police brutality towards LGBTQ+ activists?

[pogotowie]

Plakat: TPienczak / Poland 2020 Setup

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Plakat stworzony w ramach akcji solidarnościowej ze środowiskiem LGBTQ+. Wydrukuj plakat i weź go na demonstrację, powieś w okolicy lub udostępnij w internecie. Tęcza nie obraża!

[antynarodowy]

[the-brave-and-the-dumb]

The most ridiculous statements the police used against LGBT protesters since Friday:

People who were arrested while protecting Margot heard they are "participating in illegal gathering". Also one of the people arrested was a man going to the grocery store to buy some fruit so they literally held fruit hostage (as an evidence or something) I'm screaming

Person who put a flag on monument of a dragon in Kraków may be charged for "putting things in places they don't belong".

Police also didn't liked the phrase "Jesus would've marched with us" user by protesters in Poznań. Called it "an offense to religious feelings" (and this is the most used reason to put someone to jail or make them pay fees for. No one knows what "religious feelings" are, tho)

[ashisurana]

[arcticaoutloud]

i couldn't be on a gay protest in my home city warsaw yesterday and i feel like shit because of this. this whole situation makes me so angry and so depressed and now i feel just useless.

the worst thing is that if i planned stuff differently i could have been there, instead i got into a dumb discussion with my homophobic dad hoping i can change his mind at least a little. needless to say i did not. i fucking hate all this.

[veryfangurl]

What a wonderful day to live in Poland!

[fuckpaulverlaine]

I'm going to my first protest. I'm so stressed out

[socjalizmemy]

Trzymajcie się @stopbzdurom i trzymajcie się uczestniczki i uczestnicy demonstracji solidarnościowych z Margot - jesteście super! ✊🌈 ⁣ ⁣ #MuremZaStopBzdurom #StopBzdurom #policja #policjant #polskiememy #memypolityczne #polityka #lgbtpolska #lgbtpoland #warszawa #warszawa_love #warszawanocą #polska https://www.instagram.com/p/CDnjq7nnxwi/?igshid=1dxkrdvr93ucz

[pogotowie]

Plakat: Piotr Kowalczyk / You are not alone

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Plakat stworzony w ramach akcji solidarnościowej ze środowiskiem LGBTQ+. Wydrukuj plakat i weź go na demonstrację, powieś w okolicy lub udostępnij w internecie. Tęcza nie obraża!

[angstofdestiny]

Hey guys, shit is coming down in Poland, we need your help.

  Yesterday, on 7th August 2020, 54 people were detained during the protest in defence of Margot, a queer non binary activist (she/her). As for today, 8 of these people are still unaccounted for and their location is kept secret by authorities.

Margot has been arrested to serve her sentence of 2 months in jail for “damaging private property”. The private property in question was a truck with homophobic slogans equating queer people to pedophiles and stating that the primary purpose of sex ed is grooming kinds to become better victims. They also have loudspeaker through which they spread even more hateful speech while they drive around the Polish cities (yes, this is an organized action that spreads through whole Poland.) What Margot did was to slice the tires of one of these vans and threw some paint on the slogans, after the organization owning these cars failed to comply with a court order to remove them from the streets, instead gaining POLICE ESCORT. We all feel that the sentence Margot got was unjust and damaging, thus the PEACEFUL protest.

Margot tried to comply with the court order and pleaded with the police to take her into custody peacefully before the protest got too big - the pigs refused, brutally detaining her, and 54 other people only after emotions got high. None of the arrested protesters was breaking any law - the witnesses heard the pigs say things like “grab three more of them, at random”. After the arrest they refused their lawyers and MPs who came to intervene access to the detained and any information about these people and further proceedings. They also moved them between precincts, without informing anyone about their destinations.

Today more protests are organized around the country - we're scared, we're angry and we need everyone to know what's happening here. We don't know what will happen.

This was also not an isolated incident. For the past few years the governing party, with the full consent of our President, has been running a hate campaign aimed at the queer/LGBT citizens of Poland. We had bricks and stones thrown at us at Prides, last year, on Lublin Pride a right-wing terrorist couple was arrested in the crowd with homemade explosives. Our President signs declarations that are targeting our rights and local authorities thorough the country are adapting "LGBT-free zone" resolutions. Hanging a rainbow flag on a statue is framed as "agression" and "vandalism" worthy of Presidential flowers, but the government and media are quiet when real, physical aggression is aimed at us.  

Spread the word, donate if you can, if you're from Europe, write to your EU representatives to pay attention to these events. Don't let them get away with that. Don't let them start pogroms.

More information about situation in Poland, links to petitions and donations: https://lgbtqpl.carrd.co/

Twitter thread with more details about the incident yesterday and some photos: https://twitter.com/tcmlinsun/status/1292053995448610817

"help us" page  of queer collective Stop Bzdurom, which Margot is member of: https://stopbzdurom.pl/help-us/

On twitter, check out the tags #MuremZaMargot, #MuremZaStopBzdurom and #PolishStonewall

[arcticaoutloud]

I feel obliged to share

as a bisexual polish girl I just feel like I need to spread this information