\u00bbBerlin, April 2006: at an event organised by myself about the current situation of lesbian and gays in Poland, a female listener asked the LGBT activist from Poland who was speaking: \u203aYou only talk about gay groups. What about the lesbian scene?\u2039 The prompt response, \u203aThere aren\u2019t any lesbians in Poland!\u2039 doesn\u2019t just provoke all the women in the room \u2013 the general indignation is considerable. In my role as a presenter I try to negotiate, but even afterwards, Szymon Niemiec remains stubborn: \u203aJust take a look around \u2013 Polish lesbians simply don\u2019t come out of the closet.\u2039 \u2026 Of course there are lesbians in Poland, but why are they so invisible? How do Polish lesbians perceive themselves? How do they organise themselves? What clubs do they go to? What difficulties do women face in their daily lives if they do not conform to the conservative, catholic image of women? I noticed that contact with my country of origin had diminished and began doing some research. This eventually resulted in the idea for this film.\u00ab
\n\u2013 Magda Wystub<\/p>\n
The queer protagonists who had their say in Yes, We Are<\/strong> are combative, but also disillusioned. Some identify themselves with the term lesbian, others reject being classified in their sexual orientation or sex. They all have in common that they do not fit into the heterosexual matrix and are driven by the same motive: the desire for a pluralistic society in which everyone has the right to self-determination. They are committed to this in very different ways.
\nMagda Wystub\u2019s documentation for the first time places the focus deliberately and exclusively on emancipated thinking lesbians and queer women in Poland. She shows the diversity of their strategies in asserting themselves in a homophobic environment. The feelings and analyses of the heterogeneous daily life of the protagonists provide an insight here into the general political climate and the social upheaval in Poland.
\nThe film title is taken from a central slogan of the Polish lesbian movement: Yes \u2013 we are in Poland! (Jeste\u015bmy w Polsce!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","movie_year":[124],"movie_genre":[85],"movie_cat":[362],"festival":[628],"class_list":["post-19811","movie","type-movie","status-publish","hentry","movie_year-124","movie_genre-documentary-en","movie_cat-desired-film-lust-queer-en-2012","festival-2012-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n