Bartosz Staszewski
LGBT activist and film director from Poland
Bartosz (Bart) Staszewski (born 23 September 1990) is a Polish filmmaker and LGBT activist. He is the creator of the documentary Article Eighteen, co-founder of the Equality March in Lublin association and the Miłość Nie Wyklucza foundation ('Love Does Not Exclude'), which promotes same-sex marriage in Poland. Staszewski was the target of death threats and intimidation in 2019 and 2021 in relation to his activism.
Life
Staszewski was born in 1990 in Malmö, Sweden into a family of Polish immigrants. At the age of seven, he moved with his family back to Poland, Lublin, where he lived until he was 20. Then he moved to Warsaw.
Lublin Pride
In 2018 Staszewski was the formal organizer of the First Equality March in Lublin, scheduled for 13 October. On 9 October, the President of Lublin, Krzysztof Żuk, banned both the Equality March and the counter-meetings announced against it, citing a law that allows banning a public gathering due to the threat to life, health or property of people. Polish ombudsman Adam Bodnar criticized the decision, stating that it went against the Polish Constitution's guarantee of freedom of assembly. Previously the European Court of Human Rights held that bans on pride marches violate the European Convention of Human Rights after mayor Lech Kaczyński tried to ban the Equality Parade in Warsaw on the same grounds.
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