Friday, March 21, 2008

Gay marriage guy gets Polish apology


News coming on the beatroot radar that the Polish Consulate in New York has just apologised to Brendan Fay, the gay guy who complained about use of his image in the recent ant-homo TV rant by President Lech Kaczynski.

The Consulate has said that Poland apologises for the ‘regretful incident.’

Brendan Fay – an Irish immigrant to North America, and, poetically, a resident in the Queens area of the Big Apple – is accepting the apology.

Expect this story to be all over the pink press. Kaczynski has a record of daft, and worse, comments and actions against gay people. He has now been hoist by his own stupidity.

14 comments:

beatroot said...

There is now talk that the complaint was only consulted at foreign office level and so this is not an apology from the preZ but from underlings...bless

Frank Partisan said...

In the US, the Republican Party's base with youth has shrunk, due to capitalizing on homophobia. This young generation is raised on seeing gay TV characters on their favorite shows.

Is such a thing happening in Poland?

michael farris said...

Not especially.

The younger more educated segment of the population is not especially homophobic but part of this is international peer pressure. They (unlike the Kaczynskis) have figured out that public gay bashing makes the country look out of date and backwards in the context of the EU. And not appearing backward is a _very_ strong motivating factor for the educated who actively worry about how the country is perceived internationally.

luridtraversal said...

Michael Farris said: "This young generation is raised on seeing gay TV characters on their favorite shows." From what I've seen there is only 1 "gay" character on a Polish TV show. Granted, I don't watch a lot of Polish TV, but I had to suffer through an episode of Magda M once, and I believe one of the characters in the show is gay, but not "out gay". And my friends here are pretty open towards homosexuality, meaning tolerant and such, but even some of the "liberal" people that I work with still believe that gays shouldn't be teachers, or allowed to marry or have children. It IS slowly getting better, but there's still a long way to go before Poland is on the same par as the rest of the west. But still most of the "gay bashing" are done by the poorer, less educated type people. Football fans, etc.

michael farris said...

"Michael Farris said"

No I didn't.

There was also a gay character on M jak Miłość who (coincidence?) sometime after PiS's parliamentary victory was _rapidly_ written out of the show. He was the victim of a violent attack after which he moved (back) to the US. Probably PiS's version of a happy ending.

luridtraversal said...

Oops!!!! Sorry!!! "Renegade Eye said"!!! Sorry about that Michael Farris...

Anonymous said...

US is gonna kick Poland's ass tomorrow!

beatroot said...

I hope that is not some kinky sex thing...there is probably laws against that in south carolina, you know...

Anonymous said...

Prolly depends on what your definition of "is" is...

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