International dignitaries defend LGBT+ in Poland
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In a letter addressed to Ursula von der Leyen, head of the European Commission, signatories including Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Pedro Almodóvar and Slavoj Žižek have slammed Poland’s ruling right-wing nationalist and populist Law and Justice (PiS) party stating that the party made a scapegoat of sexual minorities, not caring about the safety or well-being of these citizens.
Poland’s police arrested 48 LGBT+ rights supporters on August 7. The demonstrators were defending a male-born nonbinary activist who’s popularly known as Margot (Małgorzata Szutowicz) and uses female pronouns. She has been accused of draping rainbow flags over statues in Warsaw as well as damaging the van of an anti-abortionist.
Margot is a victim of political repression, arrested for refusing to be humiliated, the international figures added.
