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Writers, actors and directors call for end to homophobia in Poland in open letter

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Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, Margaret Atwood, JM Coetzee, Ian McEwan, Slavoj Žižek and Judith Butler are among more than 70 signatories to an open letter by authors, actors and directors condemning the rise of homophobia and transphobia in Poland under president Andrzej Duda.In a letter addressed to the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the signatories write to “voice our grave concern about the future of democracy in Poland, a country with an admirable history of resistance to totalitarianism and struggle for freedom” and express their outrage at “repressions directed against the LGBT+ community in Poland”.Other signatories include film directors Pedro Almodóvar, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mike Leigh, Luca.

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