Brody's Notes... Polish Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Launch Campaign

Wojciech Szot   Photo By Radoslaw Cetra

By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) NOV 3 | Prominent Polish Gay Rights activist and co-author of the book, "HomoWarszawa- A Cultural and Historical Guide," Wojciech Szot, announced the launch of the “Love Does Not Exclude” publicity campaign to promote a national law legalising same-sex marriage today from the Polish capital city of Warsaw. In the press release, Szot said:

Poland is the biggest European Union Member State in which same-sex couples are invisible for the law. Currently, the law ensures no legal protection to them, does not regulate their situation, takes in fact no account of their existence.

The aim of this campaign is to draw attention to the fact that Poland has no civil partnerships law, and Polish legislation provides no regulations for same-sex couples.

“Love Does Not Exclude” is therefore an expression of this very pressing social need – the voice of those who are invisible to the law and ignored by politicians. For half a year now we’ve been hearing that a debate should be held in the Polish parliament, but will this happen before the parliamentary elections? Will the government and the opposition listen to their electorate?

The “Love Does Not Exclude” campaign will be comprised of active social networking on Facebook and Twitter, billboards, the website, and public events. Szot notes that the campaign will be carried out without official grants or European funding.  He says:

"The background of our activities consists of voluntary work and donations – even the smallest ones – from our sponsors, both companies and private persons. We want to show that even the tiniest gestures count and that the fight for civil partnerships can be fought in all scales, large and small."