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'Stop targeting sexual minorities': Stars sign letter supporting Poland's LGBT+ rights

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wyborcza.pl website, is addressed to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and demands the bloc takes "immediate steps" to protect "core European values".The 75 signees also include writer Paul Auster, director Luca Guadagnino, and actor Stellan Skarsgard."We speak out in solidarity with activists and their allies, who are being detained, brutalised, and intimidated.

We voice grave concern about the future of democracy in Poland, a country with an admirable history of resistance to totalitarianism and struggle for freedom," they wrote.They mentioned the arrest on August 7 of 48 people "engaged in a peaceful protest in solidarity with an LGBT+ activist", the "persistent use of anti-LGBT+ rhetoric by Polish politicians and.

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