LGBT III thread

[CTPhipps]

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[TheCountAlucard]

I'm really pulling for you guys in Poland, wyrdhamster.

[TheCountAlucard]

It looks like we're about to have our first trans person in the Senate.

[wyrdhamster]

Council of Europe is doing investigation in to situation of Polish LGBT+ people in our country...
I look forward for very heeaaavvvyyy raport for the PiS party... ❤

[wyrdhamster]

Kasia Babis feminist comic that sum-up last few weeks in Poland and massive protest movement #StrajkKobiet ❤️

[wyrdhamster]

I was hoping we will have at least two weeks without dehumanization of people in Poland...

The Kai’s Godek Foundation "Życie i Rodzina" ( en. Life and Family ) is submitting signatures to the Sejm ( Polish Parliament ) today collected under the draft law "Stop LGBT"!
The project involves, among others prohibition:

• promoting sexual orientations other than heterosexual,
• promoting "gender as an entity independent of biological determinants"
• questioning marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman,
• promoting same-sex relationships or relationships consisting of more than two people,
• promoting the extension of marriage to persons of the same sex.
• organizing Marches / Parades of Equality

In practice: prohibition of "flaunting", displaying a rainbow flag, issuing LGBT+ magazines etc. etc.!
DE FACTO - THE PROJECT DELEGALIZES THE ENTIRE LGBT+ MOVEMENT IN POLAND!!!
Because what would LGBT + organizations be allowed to do with such bans? Practically - nothing.
The successful collection of signatures for this project is largely due to the Catholic Church in Poland. At the beginning of September, Bishop Artur Miziński, the secretary general of the Episcopate, sent a letter on this matter to all bishops, writing that they could enable the collection of signatures for the project on church grounds. Many priests agreed to it willingly, as we wrote about the Atlas of Hate in one of our posts. Over 300 parishes in Poland encouraged the fundraising campaign.
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A dozen or so days ago, they took freedom from women without blinking an eye, they decided that I could decide about their lives, about their own bodies. Now, will anything stop them from doing the same to the much smaller LGBT + community in Poland?
LET'S NOT GIVE UP!
Pink News Article on the matter - https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/1...ly-foundation/

[wyrdhamster]

Union of Equality: The Commission presents its first-ever strategy on LGBTIQ equality in the EU
❤️🌈❤️

Now I just count when Polish government under PiS party will openly talk about PolExit...

[Resplendent Fire]

I wish we could have more good news and less of the bad. My heart goes out to LGBT people and all women in Poland right now, as well as Hungary.

[Resplendent Fire]

The feeling when you encounter horrifically, extremely, and downright wrong transphobic statements and want to correct them but then doing so would mean describing or quoting them and you don't want to subject anyone to that. Plus it's from ages ago and dredging old stuff up that's already been addressed is actually uncool.

I do want to say that actually being transgender or nonbinary is fine, being supported is wonderful, having access to needed health care and legal documentation changes is amazing, and a large number of the problems with gender dysphoria are due to living in a transphobic society where transphobic abuse is routinely called "legitimate questions" and "necessary debate." Gender dysphoria not a mental illness, it's a human response to trauma.

[wyrdhamster]

Today is Teddy Bear Day...

It's also, unofficial, Gay Bear Day, as LGBT+ Bears are aspiring to our Teddy Bears paragons. By Wikipedia - 'The name "bear" refers to the massive figure and hair of these people. But not only. This name refers to the symbolism of the popular term Teddy bear, i.e. someone who is friendly, direct, natural and compliant. Someone who figuratively represents the traits of a teddy bear.'

Proud Bi Bear here! 🐻

[TheCountAlucard]

Didn’t Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s film company buy the movie rights to that image?

I don’t know if he’s gonna be the teddy bear, or the dragon, but either way, I’d watch it.

[Isator Levi]

I'm glad to hear about Elliot Page's coming out as trans, as well as the surge of positive energy that visibility and the responses to it seem to be bringing to trans men at large.

[Resplendent Fire]

Elliot coming out is wonderful. I'm glad he's able to do this.

[wyrdhamster]

News that really made my day yasterday!

'Right-wing Hungarian MEP resigns for attending (gay) ‘sex party’ that broke Belgian lockdown. ( MP is known from hard fighting with LGBT in years before.)
Politician in Viktor Orbán’s party apologises as Belgian police arrest 25 men over gathering.'

Hipocryts in conservatives are just great to sus out. Especially as our Polish PiS is so much modeled over Hungarian Fides party. 😁 I even wonder if our fasistical Minister of Education Czarnek is crypto now, with his obsessions over LGBT+ in first place... 😁

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.the...ew-coronavirus

[wyrdhamster]

All male lovers of Hercules and Apollo from mythologies 🌈 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m5nA1OilGY