We will talk to Bart Staszewski about same-sex couples who want to get married, but whom Szymon Hołownia’s wife does not know, about what the “LGBT ideology” is and whether it exists at all. We will ask whether he knows about Gmina Gromadka, where a resolution on the Local Government Charter of Family Rights was adopted (a document prepared by the orthodox Ordo Iuris Institute). We will ask about the election and Andrzej Duda, as well as the Family Charter proposed by him.

Bart Staszewski:

Today, President Andrzej Duda was in Lublin, my hometown. Many people joined the counter-demonstration at the rally.

I managed to approach the president. I showed him a rainbow card saying: “I am not an ideology, I am a human being.” I told him that I have been in a relationship for eight years and do not feel safe.

President Duda agreed to invite me to the Presidential Palace.

I have no problem meeting with a president who has said many bad things about us.

Homophobia kills. There is evidence that many LGBT teenagers die by suicide.

There is no place for LGBT people in the Local Government Charter of Family Rights created by Ordo Iuris.

Ordo Iuris has been lobbying for a very conservative Poland for years.

Gmina Gromadka deserves a yellow card from the community that lives there.

We need to talk to local governments that build walls instead of bridges.

Many people raise children alone; they are discriminated against as well.

The protagonists of my film, who are raising a child, left Poland and got married.

Civil partnerships and marriages are solutions that function around the world. They do not cause a wave of divorces or acts of pedophilia.

Jews and religious minorities are protected. LGBT people are not. We want to change that.

I have been attending equality parades for years. Ordinary people go there, people who do not have to fear that someone will throw a stone at their head.

There is an organization called Wiara i Tęcza. It wants to show a different face of Christianity and that Jesus excludes no one.

Let us remember the 11th commandment: “Do not be indifferent.”

Bartosz Staszewski’s film "Article Eighteen" refers to Article 18 of the Constitution. It is a feature-length documentary in which the author asks why Poland has failed to introduce legislation enabling the formalization of same-sex relationships. The lack of an option to enter into a civil partnership or marriage not only makes ordinary daily life more difficult for them, but is also confirmation that in their own homeland they are second-class citizens.