07 May, 2006

Free love

I'm in the paper again. For some reason the Polish papers like me and seem to get photos of me at rallies and protests. This paper is called NIE (NO). A friend of mind found my photo and so then, I found the paper.

The text on my flag reads:
-Education for Understanding
and
-Homophobia is a Social disease



Summary in English Translated by: Greg Czarnecki
It's already getting hot regarding june's events. The chief of police, who wants to be the next mayor, hasn't said "no" yet but he also hasn't said "yes". So the fate of the parade and festival are going to be left to the last minute.To make gays and lesbians look bad, the nation's conservative, commercial and thoughtless media is representing the event with images from the Love Parade, which is a purely commercial event with plenty of provocative images. while the events in warsaw will be cultural. The most interesting event will probably be Teddy on Tour in warsaw, films from the Berlin film fest, showing the best films which can't be seen in PL otherwise.  There will also be a conference and a debate in the Sejm about European policy towards LGBT. There will be a concert with Kimmy Somerville.



On June 10 will be the Equality Parade. It's meant for women, gays,les, black, Vietnamese, alterglobalists, ecologists, pacifists..will it take place?

The police chief M. Kochalski is afraid. If he doesn't allow it he'll be seen as intolerant. If he does he risks his rightwing voting block in warsaw. They're looking for a pretext to ban the march. For now they're hanging on a rumor that someone will sing a rap song about how the warsaw mermaid was lesbian. The city has already prepared a reply that she wasn't a lesbian and the face was a modeled after a warsaw uprising heroin Krystyna Krahelska. Krahelska was leftist though sheÂ’s amongst KaczynskiÂ’s favorites of the uprising characters. And for defaming these people and the mermaid, the city is preparing to proactively ban the march. This is how in the defense of the Warsaw uprising and the real gender of the mermaid they might ban a film fest, seminar and parade.






What does Free love mean to you?


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