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engelkeijsers · 4 years

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Hey, I don’t know how many of you know this already, but LGBT+ rights have been violated in Poland for years now. Last year in July there was a pride parade in BIałystok, where people got beaten up for just participating and threatened with violence, and the gay flag was burned. During that time, there was also an incident, where a couple brought dangerous explosives to the pride march with plans to stop it and likely hurt or kill the people attending. They were only charged with attempted assault and were sentenced to 12 months in jail each, since under the Polish Constitution there's no such thing as a hate-crime on LGBTQ+ people. Later on the same year (2019), 1/3 of the whole country has declared itself an anti-LGBT zone/LGBT free zone. For months now, the rightist media and the main political party PIS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, which is Law and Justice in English) constantly call us an ideology and say how we want to destroy the Polish tradition and demoralize the children with our “deviations”, all that on national television and public appereances. At some point in the year, there was an installation of a giant rainbow in Warsaw. It was set on fire by homophobes, then it got rebuilt and set on fire again. Not long before this year’s election (which hapened in June) president Andrzej Duda, a member of PIS, introduced to the people a document called Karta Rodziny (more info about that here and here), signed it and announced it would be the end of the “LGBT ideology propaganda”. Also, this year a popular polish rigthtist anti-abortion and anti-lgbt activitst Kaja Godek has made a statement on public television, that "Gay people want to adopt children, because they want to molest and rape them”. For this statement she got sued by a group of gay people, who were (obviously) hurt by her words. She was deemed innocent, because the people that sued her couldn't prove they were gay and therefore couldn't prove they were personally hurt by her words. This incident alone proves that not only the public, the media and the government are against us, but also the "independent" courts. In this year’s election (mentioned above), Andrzej Duda was re-elected. His beliefs, as you could probably already tell, are extremely homophobic, but he’s not the only one in our government. Other polish politicians have said very hurtful things about the LGBT+ community; for example, Polish deputy Czarnek has said that LGBT has the same roots as Hitler’s national socialism. In some of Polish cities, mostly the big and popular ones, homophobic and and pro-life trucks are driving around, proclaiming that LGBT+ people are pedophiles and want to sexualize kids in schools (because we wanted sexual education). Poland is considered the most homophobic country in the EU.

Now, after all of this information you’re probably wondering where I’m going with all this, it didn’t happen recently after all. And you’re right, the last thing mentioned above was two months ago (which isn’t long, but isn’t ‘recently’ either). But this was just an introduction to what’s happening right now, at this moment.

Recently, Margot (Małgorzata Szutowicz, an LGBT activist; she/her pronouns) from StopBzdurom (eng: StopTheNonsense) organization was charged for vandalizing a car (which belonged to a Polish anti-LGBT organization) and for hanging rainbow flags on monuments as a form of protest against the blatant homophobia. She was arrested a few times and charged also for “violation of religious feelings”. A few days ago, she was put into 2 month pre-trial detention. Three days ago, Margot walked to the cops to be volountarily arrested but they didn’t take her. Instead, two hours later they made a scene and took her using force, without a warning. When the rest of the protestors surrounded the scene and started blocking the police cars, cops started using violence and arresting random people. Polish left wing deputees were with the protesters, covering them from the police with their own bodies and were getting law attorneys for the arrested protesters. The law attorneys however weren’t let to talk to those people until 1:30am. In Polish television, the journalists while talking about recent events were continously misgendering Margot by using her deadname and wrong pronouns.

The best way you can help right now is by educating yourself, your friends, family and mutuals on what’s happening in Poland right now, signing petitions (links below) and just checking on your polish LGBT mutuals and friends, they really need your love and support.

LINKS TO PETITIONS:

Abolish current anti-LGBT laws and protect LGBT people in Poland, call the EU to intervene

Ban acces to all EU funding programs to businesses operating in polish LGBT-free zones

We're under attack in Poland

EU: Stand with Poland’s LGBT communities

hold polish president andrzej duda accountable for hate speech against lgbt+ community

PETITION TO THE EUROPEAN COMISSION

PETITION TO MAKE SAFE ABORTION LEGAL IN POLAND

Also, if you want to donate, do not donate to change org. IF YOU WANT TO DONATE, DO IT HERE:

miłość nie wyklucza

stop bzdurom - fund for lawyers, more wild actions, and stickers

darowizna lambda warszawa

Please reblog and spread the news, so more people can know about this!!

#long post #tw homophobia #tw violence #lgbt #lgbt+#poland #please help

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tigerstripedmoon · 4 years

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Hi. Idk if you remember me, I'm that anon from Poland. Yesterday something horrible happened (police brutality during riots when they arrested and beat innocent lgbt ppl that just standing there and peacefully demonstrate, a lot of people is prisoned and went missing ).Once again, I ask you for support.PLEASE reblog anything that talks about it (the tags are #stopbzdurom, #margotszutowicz #poland).You have a lot of followers and can help us spread the word! Thank you! The world needs to hear us!

I do remember you and God, that sounds terrifying! I do hope you and yours are safe. Anyone here in America knows what bullshit they’re pulling on us with protests--well, it’s happening in other countries, too, and it’s all stemming from the same source. Right-wing homophobic/racist bullshit.

The latest there is the arrest of transgender activist Margot Szutowicz, who is being detained for two months and hasn’t been given a chance to see a lawyer, just for civil disobedience. From what I’ve managed to read in Google-translated articles, (and please correct me if I’m wrong) she was more-or-less kidnapped by the state and kicked around by the police while they shouted transphobic slurs. (news article here-in Polish) (news article by AP)

LGBT people in Poland who are in crisis can contact Lambda Warszawa. A carrd with expanded information, including links to a petition to the European Comission, is located here. There are several legal networks trying to fight this, but people’s voices and donations are needed to help.

#stopbzdurom #poland #margotszutowicz #Anonymous

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weuschoiceheart · 4 years

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Homophobia / Police Brutality in Poland

“tw // homophobia, violence

LGBT+ rights has been violated in poland for years. you might have heard about the pride parade in bialystok last year, where people were beaten up (as it turned out later, most of the attackers were from polish ruling party PiS - Law & Justice)

Then, nearly 1/3 of poland has declared itself as anti-lgbt zones

In this year’s election, Andrzej Duda was re-elected. His beliefs are extremely homophobic, he claims that LGBT are not people but an ideology and that they are a threat to families

In some of polish, mostly big cities, homophobic and pro-life trucks are driving around. They proclaim that LGBT+ people are pedophiles and want to sexualize kids in schools.

Recently, Margot (Małgorzata Szutowicz), an LGBT activist for stopbzdurom (stopthenonsense) organization, was charged with vandalizing a car which belonged to a Polish anti-LGBT organization, and for sticking rainbow flags on monuments as a form of protest.

She was arrested a few times, and charged for things like "violation of religious feelings". A few days ago the Margot was put into 2-month pre-trial detention. Yesterday, Margot walked to the cops to be voluntarily arrested, but they wouldn’t take her. The protestors surrounded the scene and the police took Margot using force without a warning. The protestors started blocking the police cars and the cops started using violence and arrest random people.

Polish left wing deputees have been with the protesters. Also, they wouldn’t let a law attorney to talk to people who got arrested until 1.30am In polish television, journalist while talking about this situation, misgendered Margot by using her dead name."

Credits: https://twitter.com/wallsomnia/status... Here are the links to some petitions you can sign to help:

http://chng.it/pK6KZcCkmJ

http://chng.it/nm2ZKSxH9r

https://action.allout.org/en/a/poland/?utm_campaign=a-poland&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/poland_lgbt_crackdown_11/?cCcEhrb

http://chng.it/wrK8Tw2cVs

https://action.allout.org/en/a/to-poland-with-love/

To Donate (DO NOT donate to Change.org!):

https://mnw.org.pl/wspieram/

https://www.firefund.net/stopbzdurom

http://lambdawarszawa.org/lambdawarszawa/wlacz-sie/darowizna/

EDUCATE YOURSELF: https://lgbtqpl.carrd.co/

PLEASE REBLOG THIS AND SPREAD THE WORD.

#homophobia #police brutality #poland #please help #please reblog this #LGBTQ #LGBT+#lgbt representation #lgbt+ pride #lgbt+ community #lgbt+ stuff #polish

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uk-news-talking-politics · 4 years

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Growing UK solidarity movement backs 'Polish Stonewall'

By Juliette Bretan

Curling up towards Regent's Park, the wide thoroughfare of Portland Place in Marylebone – a street hemmed in by stylish terraced houses, bedecked in various flags – is an international corner of central London. Among many other embassies and institutions, number 47, towards the northern end of the street, is the Polish Embassy, four-storeys of fashionable black and white brick. Attached to the front are Polish and EU flags, which project out into the street.

On Saturday, beneath those flags, you could also see a rainbow, drawn in chalk, spilling out from the building's elegant chequered entrance onto the pavement. It was there that around a hundred people gathered to protest against the recent detention of an LGBTQ rights activist, amid an escalation of homophobia in Poland.

The activist, Margot Szutowicz, was taken into custody in Poland for two months, accused of hanging rainbow flags on monuments in Warsaw and damaging an anti-abortion campaigner's van.

"We want to show all the people who are brave enough in Poland to go out and protest and risk being arrested that we are with them," says Robert Kocur, who was one of the organisers of Saturday’s protest – along with Polish Rainbow in the UK, the first Polish LGBTQ group in the country. They were joined by Marek Ciechanowski, who organised a separate protest at the embassy. The demonstrations were held at the same time as several other protests across the UK, from Manchester to Newcastle, as Poles in the UK spoke out against increasing homophobia in Poland.

Poland is now a dangerous place for the LGBTQ community. Over the last two years, ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) have clamped down on what they call an "LGBT ideology", claiming it opposes Polish values and tradition. Incumbent President Andrzej Duda, a PiS ally, made anti-LGBTQ rhetoric a centrepiece of his election bid in the recent presidential race, suggesting it was worse than communism and unveiling homophobic election pledges.

Homophobia is on the streets too, with pride marches attacked and rainbow sculptures vandalised. In the last year, as many as 97 municipalities across an area spanning a third of Poland have declared themselves "free from LGBT ideology" or adopted family rights charters - prompting several European towns to sever their twin town arrangements with these municipalities, citing human rights violations.

In May, Poland was ranked by ILGA Europe as the worst country in the EU for LGBTQ rights, with attacks from the government and church particularly blamed for increasing discrimination.

Earlier this month, the situation took an even more worrying turn. Three activists were detained, accused of offending religious feeling and insulting monuments, after rainbow flags appeared on statues in Warsaw – including, most controversially, a statue of Christ. Days later, Margot, from the organisation Stop Bzdurom, was given a two-month temporary arrest sentence, charged with vandalising a van belonging to an anti-abortion campaigner back in June. She now faces up to five years in prison.

Thousands have since protested against her arrest, both in Poland and across the world. On Friday August 7th, demonstrators in Warsaw surrounded a police van taking Margot to a station. In the ensuing scuffle, 48 others were also arrested. The incident has been dubbed the 'Polish Stonewall'.

The UK-based protests may only be in the hundreds for now, but organisers believe they reflect a powerful show of support for those in Poland.

One organiser is the London-based Robert Kocur, a 29 year old who works at METRO Charity, coordinating workshops about sexual health in the Polish language. He is a founder of SLAV 4 U, the first ever Polish Drag Show in the UK, which showcases Polish pop culture with a queer twist.

"After the alarming situation in Poland regarding the LGBT+ community, me and my friends decided that we can't stay still and need to show our support in a form of protest," he says. "The first one we've organised was very symbolic and gathered around 15 people. It was our protest against the homophobic words that our president said in public: 'LGBT are not people, it's an ideology'. Those dehumanising words reminded us of how, back in the day, people were dehumanising Jews… and we know what happened later."

Kocur says that since he moved to the UK over six years ago, he's seen the situation for the LGBTQ community in Poland deteriorate. But, as reports of hostility in Poland have increased, so has the number of protestors at the embassy.

"Now it's also about our visibility," Kocur says. "We are sending a clear message to Polish politicians that our community is ready to fight for our rights."

Other UK-based LGBTQ organisations are also getting behind the campaign. "We are extremely alarmed by what's happening to LGBT people in Poland and we stand in solidarity with them as they face continuing violence and hate," Leanne MacMillan, director of Global Programmes at Stonewall, says. "The global LGBT community owe it to the brave activists on the ground in Poland to come together, show visible support for them and work towards a solution to this appalling situation."

On Saturday, a separately-organised protest at the embassy was held by Marek Ciechanowski, who is British-born with Polish parents. He said this was the first time he had organised a solidarity protest for the Polish LGBTQ community, and wanted to"show support" for LGBTQ friends in Poland.

"I think it's a very important time to let the world know about the worrying changes that are happening in Poland right now," he says. "When a president and leading government encourage homophobia by suggesting LGBTQ people are not human, it's time for everyone to take action and protect the lives of minority groups before it's too late and history repeats itself."

Madga Oldziejewska, from Polish Rainbow in the UK, also thinks the British public need to be more aware of growing discrimination. "I don’t think there is a lot of awareness in the general society about what is going on," she says. "It's not just happening in Poland. The wave of hate and the move towards the far-right is something we're seeing internationally."

Nevertheless, Oldziejewska says that around 100 people turned up on Saturday to what she calls an "amazing" protest, although there was also a small group of counter-demonstrators. "There were only a few of them but they managed to cause quite a scene – calling us names like fascists – which is ironic, to say the least."

Kocur says he thinks UK protests could have a real impact on the struggle in Poland. "I truly believe that our protests in the UK have positive impact on the situation of the LGBT+ community in Poland," he says. "I would certainly feel empowered if I would be sitting in Polish arrest by knowing that the Polish diaspora is backing me up and sending a message of support. At the end of the day those people are the true fighters that are changing the Polish history. They need our help."

Oldziejewska agrees. She's hopeful Saturday's protests are part of a bigger growing movement. "The events of last week are so stark," she says. "They show how far we've gone."

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phooll123 · 4 years

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New top story from Time: #PolishStonewall: LGBTQ Activists Are Rallying Together After Police Violence at Protests in Warsaw

As LGBTQ activist Malgorzata Szutowicz, sits in solitary confinement for a fourth day in the city of Plock, central Poland, hundreds of people across the country are protesting in her name. On Friday, Margo, as she is more commonly known, was placed in pre-trial detention for two months, on charges of assaulting a driver of a truck that displayed an anti-LGBT banner.

The same day, hundreds of people gathered in the capital, Warsaw, to defend her freedom. In doing so, they were risking their own: 48 protestors were detained and many more injured in what experts say was an unprecedented level of police aggression against an LGBTQ demonstration, particularly in a European Union member state.

By Saturday, thousands had gathered in Warsaw to denounce Margo’s arrest and police aggression against LGBTQ people. And although Poland is experiencing a rise in new cases of COVID-19, at least 15 solidarity protests, both big and small, took place on Monday in towns and cities across the Poland, as well as in Budapest and London, New York, Paris and Berlin, with more planned.

While not all activists may agree with Margo’s methods, her prosecution and imprisonment has been widely condemned. “These radical actions are a part of history that has happened in many other countries before,” says Julia Maciocha, chairwoman at the Warsaw-based LGBTQ organization Volunteers of Equality Foundation. In a nod to the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 in New York City, several users on Twitter started posting #PolishStonewall in tweets about the weekend’s events and subsequent solidarity protests.

What’s the state of LGBTQ rights under Polish President Andrzej Duda?

The weekend protests come amid intensifying anti-LGBTQ rhetoric by government officials and state media after the recent re-election of President Andrzej Duda. On Aug. 6, the anti-E.U. populist leader was sworn in for a second five-year term as president on a strong anti-LGBTQ platform, branding LGBTQ rights an “ideology” worse than communism and proposing a “Family Charter,” including a vow to block legislation allowing gay couples to get married or adopt children. The charter also included a ban on “the propogation of LGBTQ ideology in schools and public institutions,” reminiscent of Russia’s notorious ‘gay propaganda law’ in 2013. Such moves pave the way for “verbal and physical attacks against” the LGBTQ community, says Hanna-Gill Piatek, a lawmaker from a pro-E.U. political party, Spring. Adam Bodnar, the Polish Human Rights Commissioner, agrees, saying that “to a great extent, LGBT persons are becoming victims of political life.”

For over a year, the government and religious leaders have used LGBTQ people as a “scapegoat,” says Mirosława Makuchowska, head of the Warsaw-based Stop Homophobia Campaign. The Duda-allied Law and Justice party (PiS), which has led Poland since 2015, has consistently railed against the LGBTQ community, presenting its members as a threat to family values. (Anti-LGBTQ attacks are not considered a hate crime by law in Poland.)

The church in Poland also wields enormous influence over education, law and politics, and about 86% of the population identify as Roman Catholic. Marek Jedraszewski, an archbishop, warned last year that a “rainbow plague” seeks to “control” the population. Since 2019, authorities in one-third of cities across Poland have adopted resolutions declaring themselves “LGBTQ ideology free zones.” In late July, the European Union announced it would not provide funding to six Polish towns that made this declaration.

Rafal Milach—Magnum PhotosProtestors sit in front of police on in Warsaw, Poland Aug. 7, 2020.

What sparked the protests?

On July 14, Margo, who is a member of the LBTQ activist group Stop Bzdurom (Stop Bullshit), was arrested in Warsaw and accused of assaulting the driver of a truck promoting anti-LGBT propaganda and blaring slurs from loudspeakers, as well as of damaging the vehicle on June 27. She was detained overnight and released.

On Aug. 3, police again arrested Margo, along with other activists, for taking part in a campaign that covered monuments in Warsaw with rainbow flags. Authorities accused them of “insulting religious feelings and insulting Warsaw monuments.”

Four days later, on Friday, a court ordered Margo to be placed in pre-trial detention for two months. When the court order came through, she was seeking legal counsel at the headquarters of a local organization, Campaign Against Homophobia. Although Margo gave herself up to the police, they did not arrest her. From the campaign headquarters, Margo and other activists and protesters then headed to Krakowskie Przedmieście, one of the central streets in Warsaw, where the Monument of Christ had been covered with a rainbow flag a week earlier, in response to the E.U.’s announcement that it was blocking funds to the six Polish towns that declared themselves “LGBT-free zones.”

Witnesses say that police officers in an unmarked police car then detained Margo with excessive use of force. “This was the last straw,” says LGBTQ rights activist Zośka Marcinek, who tried to prevent the car from leaving the scene. “Not only the charges and arrest were farcical, not only it was obvious Margot is being targeted as a nonbinary/transgender person, it was also cowardly and brutal,” she says.

What happened at the protests?

Hundreds of protesters were gathered at Krakowskie Przedmieście when Margo was detained at the scene. What started as a peaceful, spontaneous protest soon escalated into violence, as police started removing people violently from the site. Protesters—some just walking by or standing on the side-walk—were pushed against walls and thrown to the ground by police, activists say. Police made a lot of “mistakes” says Bodnar, whose team was able to access the 33 out of the 48 detained protestors on Saturday when all other visitors were barred. Bodnar says some people were wrongly detained—“one person was just observing the protests, another was on a shopping trip.”

Marcinek tells TIME that a uniformed policeman tripped her over, causing her to hit the back of her head on the pavement, before an officer then held her in a chokehold. She was arrested and taken into custody, and says police taunted her with homophobic slurs. Despite suffering from a concussion, she says she was denied medical assistance for around eight hours. Makuchowska, the head of the Warsaw-based Stop Homophobia Campaign, says police pushed her to the ground, leaving her with a bruised back.

On Twitter, Warsaw’s police force said 48 people were detained in connection with insulting a policeman and damage to a police car, and that the police had called for “legal behavior” during the protests. A report by the Polish Commissioner found that many people were interrogated at night with no access to legal aid, food or drink and that several detainees had visible body injuries as a result of police brutality. Piatek says that police blocked lawyers from contacting some detainees for hours. Several left-wing politicians, who intervened at the police stations, were also denied the right to information, she says.

Bodnar says that he wouldn’t compare this situation with previous LGBTQ demonstrations, which were planned Pride events and marches. But he notes an “unequal approach by the police,” referring to the lack of police response to marches led by nationalist groups—even when such marches could be seen as promoting aggression, like burning an LGBTQ flag. In his view, the police’s reaction to demonstrations depends on whether a certain group is “liked by the authorities or not.”

Rafal Milach—Magnum PhotosThe Nicolaus Copernicus monument is decorated with a rainbow flag.

What happens next?

Now, Poland’s LGBTQ community is bracing itself for what’s next. While those detained over the weekend have now been released from custody, activists say many of them will likely end up in court on charges of illegal gathering. In Polish law, this is defined as a riot in which participants jointly commit a violent assault on a person or property — a provision “only used when a crowd is calling for violent actions,” says Bodnar. But the weekend’s events “were not like this,” he says.

Nevertheless, he—like many others—is finding hope in the solidarity the LGBTQ community has received after the weekend’s protests. What made these protests “different” and “impressive,” he says, was the way politicians and lawyers rallied in support. At least eight politicians were present at police stations where protestors were detained, he says, while lawyers volunteered to defend them. “Polish authorities didn’t predict that putting Margo in detention would cause such powerful protests by the LGBTQ community and that those protests would be supported by opposition politicians and pro bono lawyers,” Bodnar says.

As well as solidarity protests, Poland’s LGBTQ community is rallying together to provide legal help and psychological support for the 48 people who have been detained. The Campaign Against Homophobia has been recruiting pro bono legal help for people who have been detained, and an LGBTQ-organized fund for psychological help has raised 20,000 Polish złoty ($5,345).

But what happens next for Margo remains uncertain and she is still waiting to access a lawyer while in solitary confinement. On the outside, Marcinek, the protester, tells TIME that policemen are randomly visiting and searching the homes of others who had been detained during the protests without warning or justification. And the broader future for LGBTQ rights in Poland is unclear. “Living in Poland, you can’t predict the future,” says Maciocha, head of the Volunteers of Equality Foundation.

What activists want now is stronger international solidarity, particularly from European governments. Remy Bonny, a Brussels-based LGBTQ rights activist and researcher who focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, says “we have seen this kind of violence in Russia and Belarus, for example, but not in an E.U. country.” The European Commission should condemn police violence in Poland in the same way it recently denounced the repression of protests in Belarus, he says. Makuchowska says she and other activists are calling on the international community to “help us to immediately release Margo.”

Despite the recent political campaign against LGBTQ people, activists say they feel that support for this community is growing and that more people who were once silent on LGBTQ rights issues are now compelled to speak out on social media or attend solidarity protests. “The community feels stronger in the end,” Makuchowska says. “We are determined to protect ourselves. The feeling is that we are strong.”

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toyotabedzrock · 4 years

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Poland's Stonewall: Police Attack and Arrest Queer Protestors

Poland's Stonewall: Police Attack and Arrest Queer Protestors https://www.out.com/news/2020/8/10/polands-stonewall-police-attack-and-arrest-queer-protestors

#lgbt #lgbtq #glbt #glbtq #gay #poland

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the-brave-and-the-dumb · 4 years

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TW: police brutality, violence

Photos from yesterday's protests in Poland

On two of these photos there are polish deputies, Magda Filiks and Magdalena Biejat. Both of them had to stay up to late hours trying to help people who were illegaly catched by police and arrested.

Magda Filiks (the first picture) says: "Next to me there was a girl thrown on the ground. In next 5 seconds police officers were standing on her: one with the foot on her head, second on the foot on her back. (...) I covered her with my own body because they couldn't stand on me."

Girl's name is Julia.

Soon we will have to remember many many more names than Milo who killed themselves because they couldn't stand the hate anymore, Margot and Julia who were illegaly arrested. There are and will be more.

#lgbt #lgbt+#lgbtqia #lgbt activism #polish lgbt activism #polish activism #poland #news from poland #polish news #acab #police brutality #margot #margot szutowicz #stopbzdurom #stop bzdurom #muremzamargot #magda filiks #magda Biejat

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marxismrepostism · 4 years

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[2020-08-08] Dozens of people were arrested in Warsaw yesterday following the police executing a court order granting two-month pre-trial detention of a member of Stop Bzdurom (Stop Bullshit) queer collective Małgorzata Szutowicz (Margot)* concerning a direct action involving alleged damage to a truck driving around Warsaw blasting homophobic hate speech (or indeed, bullshit) from its loudspeakers.

Margot is now facing a potential seven-year prison sentence for several direct actions Stop Bzdurom undertook in opposition to Poland’s ever-increasing queerphobic fundamentalism and straightforward bigotry, primarily fuelled by the country’s ruling far-right Law and Justice Party (PiS).

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planetransgender · 4 years

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Polish Police Are Abducting and Brutalizing LGBT Citizens

Transgender activist Malgorzata Szutowicz leaps to drape another Pride Flag on a Polish monument.

Protests erupted on Friday in Warsaw, Krakow, Lublin, and Wroclaw following the arrest of transgender activist Malgorzata Szutowicz, known best as “Margot.”

Half a million have signed lets get to a million! Change.org petition Abolish current anti-LGBT laws and protect LGBT people in Poland, call…

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#Malgorzata Szutowicz #Margot #Poland

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zyciestolicy · 4 years

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Światowi naukowcy domagają się uwolnienia Margot!

„Wzywamy polskie władze do natychmiastowego uwolnienia Małgorzaty Szutowicz”. Problem w tym, że osoba o taka osoba nie znajduje się w areszcie, tylko Michał Sz. …

Gazeta Wyborcza poinformowała właśnie, że naukowcy z całego świata podpisali się pod apelem do polskich władz o natychmiastowe uwolnienie Małgorzaty Szutowicz. Chodzi oczywiście o Michała Sz. ps. Margot. Dlatego spokojnie można…

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itsfinancethings · 4 years

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What’s the state of LGBTQ rights under Polish President Andrzej Duda?

Rafal Milach—Magnum PhotosProtestors sit in front of police on in Warsaw, Poland Aug. 7, 2020.

What sparked the protests?

What happened at the protests?

Rafal Milach—Magnum PhotosThe Nicolaus Copernicus monument is decorated with a rainbow flag.

What happens next?

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hellofastestnewsfan · 4 years

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What’s the state of LGBTQ rights under Polish President Andrzej Duda?

Rafal Milach—Magnum PhotosProtestors sit in front of police on in Warsaw, Poland Aug. 7, 2020.

What sparked the protests?

What happened at the protests?

Rafal Milach—Magnum PhotosThe Nicolaus Copernicus monument is decorated with a rainbow flag.

What happens next?

#Blogger

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pinktheoristcollector · 4 years

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What’s the state of LGBTQ rights under Polish President Andrzej Duda?

Rafal Milach—Magnum PhotosProtestors sit in front of police on in Warsaw, Poland Aug. 7, 2020.

What sparked the protests?

What happened at the protests?

Rafal Milach—Magnum PhotosThe Nicolaus Copernicus monument is decorated with a rainbow flag.

What happens next?

#Blogger

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