Gay blog

Yesterday’s Equality Parade was the final point of last week’s Equality Days (with the slogan Live, Love, Be!) in Warsaw. Organizers assess the number of people who attended the Parade at 7-8 thousand, the police and mass media give the number of only 2 thousand. The truth lies somewhere in between and whether it’s many or not - that’s a relative thing. But one thing is certain, there were much fewer people than at the memorable year 2005 Parade, which was banned by former Warsaw’s mayor, Lech Kaczyński. Nevertheless, I was impressed. This was the first time I’ve attended the Equality Parade (last year I was still in China at that time; before - I’d better not mention) and in my own opinion, which knows only such expressions as many, few, I don’t know and something about that, it was a crowd.

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66% of the Poles say that gays and lesbians should have been forbidden to organize public demonstrations, 27% say they should have had this right. 66% think that the Poles’ attitude towards homosexuals is hostile, 25% - that it’s neutral and only 1% think that the attitude is friendly. 25% express the opinion that homosexual couples should have the right to show their lifestyle in public, 69% want them to stay invisible.

At the same time, only 15% of respondents admit that they know someone who is gay personally! And these are mostly citizens of some big cities. Young ones. Well, it’s hard to underestimate their level of education - better educated Poles more often consider homosexuality a totally normal thing, but it’s poor 8% in general.

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Dear Reader, let me introduce an up-and-coming star of Catholic anti-fag show business! Give a big hand to the Reverend Trytek!

(the full version of this post contains a video of the Reverend Trytek sharing his opinions about homosexuals and of what should be done to get rid of them; it’s in Polish, of course, but there’s nothing I can do but to provide You with a proper translation :] proceed and enjoy!)

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Let me continue.

Because of this rather tense situation President Kaczyński decided to refer to his constitutional right. On 17 March he gave the address to the nation. I suppose most of You haven’t seen it, or maybe even heard of it. So now You have this unique chance. And believe me, You don’t need to understand it. Just listen to it. I will explain it afterwards. Enjoy:

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(…) Aggressive, impulsive homophobia is a cultural norm in Poland. (…)

(…) Prejudice is a part of social life. It happens that majority dislikes minority. It smells bad, behaves in an annoying way, and in addition it doesn’t respects majority’s just prejudice. (…)

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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.

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Yesterday Rzeczpospolita, one of Polish biggest nationwide daily newspapers, published an interview with our new Vice-Marshal of the Sejm (lower house of the Polish parliament) Stefan Niesiołowski. There would be nothing uncommon in this fact, if the conversation wasn’t about gay and lesbian community. And Niesiołowski has been known for his homophobic public statements for years. Some time ago he said:

Homosexuality is not a norm, most likely it is a sickness and we all should pray for them sinners and strive for their reformation and conversion.

Moreover, Marches for Equality are nothing but provocations which are aimed at leading to

discrimination against family, inter alia by financially supported by the government propaganda for abortion, by limitation on parents’ influence and rights (for example with making it possible for children or neighbours to officially complain about them), by gradual elimination of the [Catholic] Church’s influence and religion’s role in the process of education, by promotion of unmarried mothers and discrimination against numerous families, and finally by promotion of homosexuality.

(after Wikipedia)

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I just came back from the author’s evening with Robert Biedroń, who is the author of recently published book Tęczowy Elementarz (there’s no official translation, but If I had to, I would make Rainbow’s ABC out of the title). The meeting took place in one of the gay clubs in Warsaw, namely Rasko, today (November 8th) at 7 pm.

I guess everything went just as good as it could. Unofficial and very friendly, warm and optimistic atmosphere made a wonderful impression on me. As for Robert, it was the first time I’ve met him. Though I’ve already heard much about him. But this implies that, for now, I know him only as an author, and not as a gay rights activist, for instance founder of Campaign Against Homophobia (one of the biggest and most important Polish LGBT rights groups).

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