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I decided to write what I’m just about to write after reading a post at mediafun with a nice title Pedał też człowiek (Fag’s a human too - unfortunately only in Polish). The Author writes about Kuba Sagan’s and Magda Szul’s advertising project, which focuses on the matter of social acceptance of homosexuals. One of the project’s authors comments, inter alia, as follows:

George Bernard Shaw once said: Only human can be inhumane. Our work forces to think - that person whom I recently, in some way, stigmatized for his sexual orientation, that person is the same human being as myself.

Although the project hasn’t been brought to light yet, there were a few similar, more or less successful, campaigns held in the past. The main contribution belongs to Campaign Against Homophobia. Organization’s most important actions include for example Co się gapisz, pedale?! (What are you staring at, faggot?!), Homofobia. Tak to wygląda. (Homophobia. That’s what it looks like.) and Niech nas zobaczą (Let them see us), and also the project Jestem gejem, jestem lesbijką! Poznaj nas! (I’m a gay, I’m a lesbian! Get to know us!).

What puzzles me is the reception of this kind of campaigns and projects in the society. There are two main aspects of this social reception: a) the matter of attitude towards homosexuality and homosexuals as they are, b) the matter of attitude towards anti-homophobia campaigns and moves as they are.

Gay’s a human too. Found somewhere on some wall. It’s not a part of any official campaign. © by Raziel.

As for the first aspect - everyone knows well, what the situation looks like. And now, those who don’t have anything against homosexuals and their presence in the society, which means those who don’t burn with irrational hatred, don’t think about it as an abnormal or harmful phenomenon, but a natural world’s order, those people have their proper opinion and not they are the main target of any anti-homophobia campaign, which are targeted at those whose attitude the authors would like to change or tone down. But there’s a small problem here. You don’t have to love homosexuals, your attitude can be completely neutral (well, that’s the best one in fact) or more ore less warm. But if someone hates fags, this hatred is as intense as possible. No half measures, no discussion, no rational argumentation. Those people hate and that’s that. It would be best if every single fag was wiped off the surface of the earth.

Polish society is a quite conservative one and that’s a fact. The Catholic religion plays its definitely too important role here, that’s a fact too. And that’s something hard to rationally discuss with, because people seem to have forgotten that beliefs are beliefs, not the only truth revealed. What follows it is much to strong institutional power and influence. I really can’t understand why the Poles are so very stubborn in defending themselves against independent thinking. It is such a enjoyable thing…

On the other hand, not once and not twice did I spoke with some of my friends, who don’t have much in common with any religion, but still they hate and despise. And they are very intelligent people, so at least it’s possible to discuss. I used to talk with them for hours. With different effects, of course. But it turns out that a person capable of rational and independent thinking is able to agree with logical argumentation. I’m not saying that they suddenly came to loving homosexuals as much as their own brothers and sisters. But at least there were some things for them to think about. With some they agreed, with others they didn’t, but the point is that their groundless hatred toned down. Because it just couldn’t face pure logic.

As for the second aspect of the social reception of the campaigns etc. Well, it’s quite diverse. Or is it? Some people’s attitude will be rather warm, and not necessarily because of the warm feeling towards homosexuals, but simply because of willingness to keep some kind of social order, in which there’s a place for everyone. Others will start screaming that they don’t want to see or hear any homosexual propaganda, that two hugging guys on some poster or on the street makes them sick. Let fags do anything they want in their homes, but they don’t have the right to impose their deviations on the society and to deprave it.

Wait a moment. They say about not imposing anything upon anybody? In this country?! About not imposing the world view? About not imposing beliefs? About not imposing the lifestyle?! Kidding! If it really was that those anti-homophobia campaigns impose anything… And who says that? People in the country where outdated and irrational Catholic values are imposed upon me in every aspect of my life, where politicians began to interfere in my private life, where the state’s marriage to the Church leads to society full of hatred in the name of Christian love and destroys social harmony to the extent never seen before, leading this damned society to, in fact, moral self-destruction?!

The anti-homophobia campaigns, on the contrary, are not to promote homosexuality or convert people to it or force them to anything. They’re all just about some positive presence in people’s consciousness. Such a tiny little thing like treating a gay or a lesbian as a human being, just like everyone else. Nobody forces anyone to anything. Nobody imposes anything upon anyone.

And I just want to feel no hatred and contempt around… to feel no fear… Is it really to much?

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