Please, read my message.
My name is Oliwia. I am 17 years old and I come from Poland. And you know what? I'm fucking scared for my life. I am terrified for the lives of others. You probably heard about what happened last year in my country. "LGBT free zone" stickers, massive beatings in the city of Białystok at the pride parade.
This year is even worse. But not only for the LGBTQ+ people.
People are scared to go out and be themselves. Because if they show their true identity, they will be in massive danger.
PIS „Law and Justice” (the political party that rules our country at the moment) considers the removal of one of the legal abortion laws. We’re talking about a situation when the fetus is badly damaged. Very clever of them if we look at the fact that it is almost 98 percent of legal abortions in Poland. X
The leader of the anti-abortion initiative, Kaja Godek, argued during the parliamentary debate that the defense of life is enshrined in the constitution and described any abortion as “torture.”
“Abortion is a pandemic that is far worse than the coronavirus,” Godek said. “It produces more victims and all of them die.” X
There is also very “nice” clip of her saying “Lesbians, gays and other perverts, stay away from Poland.” She also fights to ban all pride parades across the whole country. X
If that didn’t convince you yet, how fucked up the situation was, how about criminalisation of sexual education? Yeah..I know..
PIS is trying to make a law where you can go to jail for even 3 years for teaching children about sex and other important stuff they have to understand at some point in their life.
“The proposed change will provide legal protection for children and young people against sexual depravity and demoralization, which is developing at a dangerous pace and affects thousands of the youngest Poles through the so-called sex education. Responsible for "sex education" of the environment enter other educational institutions in Poland, awakening children sexually and promoting homosexuality, masturbation and other sexual activities among students.” X
You want more? Okay. What about a boy named Jan from Jordan who has posted a modification of the emblem on Facebook, adding LGBT rainbow colors in the background. He’s 16. “I wanted to show that it is worth loving and respecting each other without prejudice" The case was reported to the Police. They arrested him and told him he has to say sorry for what he’s done and threatened him that they’ll send him to a correctional institution. X
People here are scared, I am scared. I don’t have the power to do anything yet because I’m just a kid in the eyes of adults. And you may ask “what can I do?”
And all I’m asking for is this:
Please be loud and stay proud of yourself. Talk about the situation in Poland. Talk about how fucked up this is. We can’t let PIS just get away with all of this. Not again. Please. I’m literally begging you. I love you all so much, I don’t want to be silenced and be afraid to go outside. I don’t want the history to repeat itself.
I’m tagging some of the pretty popular and trustworthy accounts, if you can, please reblog this and please don’t give up.
op, do you have any links to lgbt organizations in poland that people could donate to? i found some by googling around but bc i don’t have any firsthand knowledge i don’t want to thoughtlessly link some and then find out they’re known to be shitty (peta, susan g komen, etc). if you know of any that you trust or that you’ve seen doing meaningful work on the ground and can add them i’d be happy to reblog again so those w the ability can donate
So I've been reading up on this in the last half hour, and it's extremely dire. The party is pushing a bill that would classify any attempts at teaching students sex Ed, especially through a lens that includes the LGBT+ community, as paedophilia.
Large swaths of the country have been declared "free of LGBT propaganda."
Judges are defending hate groups as they actively and aggressively campaign against the rights of the LGBT+ community in the streets.
Additionally, there is age-old vitriolic hate against refugees only gaining strength.
I tried looking into organizations which directly deal with these crises in Poland specifically, but I've had no luck.
If anyone has more information on that, sound off please.
Meanwhile, I think it's important that people know about and are talking about this.
Thank you for your concern!
Main organisation that fights against homophobia in Poland is Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (Campaign against homophobia): their paypal
Some other organisations that help LGBT+ people in Poland:
Miłość nie wyklucza (Love Does Not Exclude) - fight for marriage equality
Trans-fuzja - helps trans people
Lambda - provides psychological help for LGBT+ people (the site is only in Polish but the link leads to the donation page)
Oganisations that help refugees in Poland:
Fundacja Ocalenie - donate here
Polska Gościnność (Polish Hospitality Foundation): donate here
Halina Nieć Legal Aid Center - offers legal advice to people in search of asylum
also consider signing this petition protesting against making abortion illegal
Ponton - organisation focused on sex education (that is if it doesn't become illegal)
those are all of the organisations I can think of now. Please consider donating, even one dollar means a lot! Thank you!
Thank you for these resources!!!!
