Bruh. This needs to be a mandatory post on everybody’s blog. Y'all really be pullin out decade old receipts like woah.

Either you want people to grow and change or you want people to stay evil villains soyou can feel superior as you shame them.

the current government of Poland is very fond of the expression “LGBT ideology”, which sets up queer people as a bogeyman to scare up support for far-right parties. Duda is up for reelection this year and he’s clearly following the playbook to the letter. the insidious thing about Karta Rodziny is that it contains some positive ideas, like state protections for single parents and higher penalties for domestic violence… as well as “a ban on promoting LGBT ideology by public institutions”[1]. so if you protest Karta Rodziny, the gov’t and state-controlled media will absolutely claim you ~just want single parents to die~ and ~love domestic abusers~.

[1]: no queer-inclusive sex education at schools, for one. there’s been a push for better sex ed and a counter-push by far-right, anti-choice groups for NO sex ed.

it was signed June 10, 2020. this isn’t news from the 1990s.

some donation links to help Polish LGBTQ+ community 

Love Does Not Exclude Association (Miłość nie wyklucza) - focused on ensuring the right to marry for all, regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity, and battling harmful stereotypes about the LGBTQ+ community (the link leads you to the donation page in English)

Trans-Fuzja Foundation - activities aimed to help the Polish transgender community by providing professional psychological help and support, legal advisory, educating the public opinion about transgender issues, creating safe spaces for the Polish trangender community (the link leads you to the donation page in English)

Kampania Przeciw Homofobii - fights the discrimination of non-heteronormative and transgender people in Poland, educates about LGBTQ+ issues (link to the donation page in Polish, where you can choose which specific area of their work you want to support - LGBTQ+ families, general support, fighting the violence against the community, fighting discrimination and ignorance in schools, LGBTQ+ health issues, work with LGBTQ+ allies and families of LGBTQ+ folks - google translate should help you with understanding the page)

Asfera Association - support of people from the ace spectrum, education about their issues. Link goes to their facebook page. As far as I know donations are possible only via bank transfers - 54 1600 1127 1884 0040 6000 0001, transfer title “darowizna”

Here’s a petition you can sign as well!!! Please do, and please spread the news. We really need help.

Just to add what’s been going on during the past few days:

11/06: Peaceful protest in Warsaw. Civic Coalition members and supporters (KO) tried to sabotage the protest by saying that it was organized by PiS. It was confirmed that the event is not affiliated with PiS in any way. 

12/06: Jacek Żalek, member of PiS said: “LGBT is an ideology, not people”. After that, the presenter, Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska, ended the discussion with Żalek.

13/06: In response to the situation with Żalek, Andrzej Duda, president of Poland said: “They’re trying to convince us that these are people and not an ideology. If anyone has any doubts whether it is an ideology or not, then they should research history and look at how LGBT movement was made. […] Best evidence that LGBT is an ideology is that some people that are homosexual don’t identify with the movement or the ideology.”

13/06: Przemysław Czarnek, member of PiS said: “We have to defend ourselves from the LGBT ideology and stop listening about human rights or equality. These people are not equal to normal people.“

Marches/demonstrations organized in Poland on 21st June:

Warszawa

Kraków

Poznań

Katowice

Wrocław