Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, the former deputy prime minister and staunch LGBT rights advocate, is among those lost in the plane crash. Jaruga-Nowacka was one of the loud voices who rebuffed Kaczynki, when he was mayor of Warsaw, for canceling gay pride there. [PBW]
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Lanjier
Hopefully she and the others are really on the island of Lost, where she is comforting, building fires of hope, and fighting “the others.” There has got to be a better way to build airplanes.
10042010
She was great woman committed to the fight for LGBT rights. It was mission of her life – to make Poland better place for people like me, like us. I will miss her. [*]
10042010
@Lanjier The plane was Made in Russia. Tupolew Tu-154M.
hephaestion
Both the president of Poland and his brother were/are extreme homophobes. I recall hearing that one of them was suspected of being a closeted homosexual.
alan brickman
this sucks…
hephaestion
Remember this? :
Wednesday February 21 2007
POLISH President Lech Kaczynski was last night described as ignorant and a disgrace to Europe after he suggested that widespread homosexuality would lead to the disappearance of the human race.
He made his remarks just hours before Justice Minister Michael McDowell said in a key Dail debate that Ireland cherished gay people as “equal citizens”.
Speaking in Dublin yesterday on the last day of a three-day state visit, the Polish president shocked a large audience by saying “homosexual culture” and sexual orientation should not be promoted as an alternative.
– from the Irish Independent
Mike L.
I hope she’s resting in peace, and Poland’s pres is where he belongs answering to god for the discrimination he inflicted upon god’s lgbt children.
Mike L.
@hephaestion: Quite likely since studies show that there is a fifty percent probability that one of any twin can be homosexual.
Either that or they both were gay and engaged in incest and b/c of that they were complete a-holes to lgbt ppl and became closeted.
Jose
“lol, cute, fail, stupid, more please”
throw in a “=/” maybe?
my condolences.
SSCHIEFRSHA
She will be sorely missed and her role shall NEVER be forgotten. Condolences to her family and friends.