Radical Queer posters seen around Brisbane, courtesy of rad queer crew ‘No Pride In Police’
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This is why we don’t invite cops to pride
Cops = Klan
how can people see police escorting a band of literal armed nazis through a pride parade and not connect the fucking dots about whose side the cops are on
Happy Pride Month! Don't forget that the founder of Pride is a bisexual woman, Brenda Howard aka Mother of Pride, who organized the first pride parade. Don't forget that two of the most key figures in LGBT liberation were Marsha P Johnson, a black trans woman, and Sylvia Rivera, a puerto rican trans bi woman. Don't forget that the person to start the fight against the police at stonewall was Stormé DeLarverie, a butch and gnc biracial lesbian.
“LGBT people don’t need pride”
“LGBT people are accepted nowadays”
“LGBT people have enough representation”
“LGBT people have the same rights as others”
mhmmmmm
lmao what???? pride is literally a celebration of LGBT+ people. it’s for US.
…………Pride was literally created for the explicit purpose of celebrating LGBT+ people. it is not for celebrating cishet identities. like that’s just…. not what it is. you don’t get to just change the definition of Pride lmao
These pictures are what happened in poland following the arrest of Margot from anarcho queer collective @stopbzdurom (on ig) translated to “stop bullshit” for fighting homophobic and pro life propaganda in Poland.
For context: After the Re-Election of Andrzej Duda, from the conservative, corrupt, nationalist party PiS, who made his whole campaign about fighting LGBT “ideology” and dehumanising lgbt people in poland, things have quickly become worse than ever for us here. Its not unusual to see trucks with anti lgbt and pro life propaganda on them, calling gay people p*dophiles who want to adopt children to r*pe them. Me and my girlfriend stumbled into an anti gay protest like that in Kraków a month ago, one of polands most progressive cities. The protest was backed and protected by a police car and the protestors were holding a banner calling LGBT people pedophiles. Margots organisation was fighting these state backed initiatives by destroying public propaganda, organising lgbt dance events in places of white nationalist rallies and organising anti homophobic protests.
After Margots organisation destroyed pro life propaganda in Warsaw a few months back, she got arrested for the first time, taken from her house by undercover police men into an unregistered police car, without shoes or clothes. Nobody knew where she was for a few days and there was no information about her. She got found through a big social media action.
You may have seen the pictures of religious and significant statues in warsaw being clad with pride flags on social media, this was margots initiative. This is why she has been arrested again.
Margot is facing 2 months arrest in a polish men’s prison, which could mean death and hard physical abuse to her. All of that for hanging gay pride flags in public places. This is a textbook political arrest. Lawyers and politicians from leftist parties have been trying to help her, but the police wont let them reach her. The polish prime minister is on twitter saying she deserves this for “the profanation of national and religious symbols”.
Please spread this throughout social media and dont let it go unheard. Public outrage is the only way we can free her and fight polish governments political repression of anyone disagreeing with the current regime and real time descent into a dictatorship. Public outrage and bad press for poland is the only thing the government is afraid of.
If youre in Poland, join todays protest in Warsaw (plac Defilad) at 18:30 in solidarity with Margot.
follow and support her collectives page on instagram @stopbzdurom and follow @grupastonewall for updates on her situation and protests.
#freemargot
Margot’s collective has a legal fund you can donate to here rest of the proceeds will go to their actions to stop homophobic propaganda and spreading pro-lgbt information in Poland
I'll add some things:
Firstly for the sake of truth: Margot is officially arrested for the 'fucked up the truck with homophobic slurs', but his only happened after the rainbow flags were hanged on monuments. This is political, as they were already arrested for the truck thing and let go a couple weeks ago.
Tw Police brutality, and tw sexual harrasment in the end of the post
Secondly, POLICE BRUTALITY. Margot was in KPH (Huge LGBT rights organisation) office when the news about arrest broke out; Social media was updated and soon people started showing up, an hour later there were quite some crowds, 3 police vans show up. 3 of them, to arrest one person. Margot gets out of the office, goes to the police, and they say 'yeah sorry we not gonna arrest you'. Here's the picture
So the crowd and Margot decide to walk to Krakowskie przedmieście, the part of the city where Kopernik and Christ sculptures are (both had rainbow flags put on them earlier by StopBzdurom, the Jesus one was a huge 'offensive!!!' for some people) When they all get there, crowd grow, the Jesus monuments looked like this
Margot gets arrested by plain clothes officers, (I think it was violent but I am not sure). The car with Margot is firstly surrounded by fellow protesters, then by policemen who are surrounded by protests. People sit in front of the car. Police starts to get violent, they straight up throw people out of the way. Pics like this are taken.
That blonde lady is MP, Magdalena Filiks (whole statement on her fb). She saw a girl being thrown on the streets, then policemen standing on her head and back. MP pushed them away and put the bag under her head. Imagine what would happen, if the person who reacted didn't have immunity. Or if no one reacted at all
Then police starts to arrest other people. There are recordings and statements of policeman saying 'yeah just pick random 3 people'. Finally the car gets out and goes. this happened Friday evening, and yesterday evening, 24h later, it was still unknown where Margot was taken. Even the lawyer, who Margot had constitutional right to, was denied this information.
Now back to the protests: words gets out that arrested people are taken to police department of Wilcza street and some others, crowd starts to grows there too. Police is taking a shit tone of people, over 40 total (huh, and last year in Białystok when some assholes threw bricks at pride parade they only managed 20-some) this all is still non violent, worst people do is shouting, sitting on the ground and waving some flags around. Policeman starts to arrest random people, including some foreign guy who stopped to see what's going on and some guy who was going home with groceries. Lewica's and couple of KO parliament members are there, they try to cover protests, ask police where they take them, etc. then they spend whole night looking for people, as police department across the city refuse to give out the information or lie. To the MP, who have right to do this type of things. Regular people asking about friends and family were treated worse. arrested people are denied in rights to lawyers. It's not until 24 hours later, when we finally know where everyone is, and first people are getting out. Policemen sexually abused someone while at the police department. Like, male officers lifting dresses and putting hands where they definitely shouldn't (Wanda Nowicka FB page, if someone doubts)
In summary: ACAB, or, in polish, CHWDP
Also, to make this post a little bit sweeter: yesterday, a Saturday, a couple thousands people were protesting this shit in Warsaw. Similar protests happened or are scheduled in many many cities, even abroad. We're doing our best here, but pls help us out, spread the word.
THIS PRIDE MONTH PLEASE SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH THE BLACK LGBT COMMUNITY. BLACK LGBT LIVES MATTER AND ARE AT MORE THAN A RISK THAN EVER.
LGBT folk deserve these things and so much more - consider donating to black LGBT funds this pride in support of BLM
