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Stryjkowski Julian
Stryjkowski Julian writer, 1905-1996
Prominent writer exploring Jewish culture. He lived at 2 Wyzwolenia Avenue and was buried on the Jewish cemetery at Okopowa Street in Warsaw. He had not written about his homosexuality until he published a short story under the title Milczenie [Silence]. In an interview with Roman Kurkiewicz and Adam Michnik published in Gazeta Wyborcza daily he said that it was a matter of dignity for him to openly tell the truth about himself. At least at the end of his he could walk with his head held high.
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I told myself: You are eighty years old, make it your last book, close the door behind you, write more your own words, don't write about nothing anymore … Through all the time when I was a communist, I was downright scared. My homosexuality forced me not to get involved in disputes too often. …I had to hide from people what they do not have to hide from me. It was a dreadful ordeal … .
Julian Stryjkowski recalled also that when before the war his comrades from an illegal com- 118. The house where Julian Stryjkowski lived munist party discovered his, as you would then say, “propensity”, he was ostracized, for what kind of a communist is interested in men? And can you stay in the same prison cell with him? It is not safe. Also, a pederast is not worthy of calling himself a revolutionist and communist. However, in the communist Poland, this did not prevent Stryjkowski in his career as a writer. For many years he was a member of the editorial staff of Twórczość magazine, whose editor in chief was... the King of Polish Pederasts Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. See also: ▶ Iwaszkiewicz Jarosław
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The complex consists of an indoor swimming pool, a jacuzzi, water cascades, and a 35-meter long slide, making it… a gay heaven. Or such is at least the impression from Internet ads. The pool is one of the most popular meeting places for men who may not necessarily have swimming in mind. An urban legend has it that many straight folks have seen a gay pass for the first time in their lives there. Although it is not the only swimming pool in Warsaw frequented by gays, its proximity to Arkadia mall lures
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