Robert Biedroń

Robert Biedroń
Mayor of Słupsk
Assumed office
December 6, 2014
Preceded by Maciej Kobyliński
Member of the Sejm
In office
November 2011 – December 2014
Constituency 26 – Gdynia
Personal details
Born (1976-04-13) April 13, 1976
Rymanów, Poland
Political party Your Movement
SLD (previously)
Domestic partner Krzysztof Śmiszek
Alma mater Kazimierz Pułaski University
University of Warmia
Website www.robertbiedron.pl

Robert Biedroń (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrɔbɛrt ˈbjedrɔɲ]; born 13 April 1976 in Rymanów beside Krosno, Poland) is a Polish LGBT activist and politician. He was previously a member of Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland party and the Democratic Left Alliance. Member of Your Movement. He also serves on the board of the Polish Campaign Against Homophobia. Formerly a member of the Sejm, he is currently the mayor of Słupsk.

Education

Biedroń received a master's degree in political science at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (2000). He was also a PhD student in political sciences at the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities (2011), but he did not graduate.

Political career

In 2005 Biedroń was an unsuccessful Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) candidate for the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament. In 2006 he won election for the Olsztyn Regional Assembly as an SLD candidate. During his term he proposed more than 740 amendments to the regional bylaw, more than 600 of which were accepted.

The following year, in the October 2011 parliamentary elections, Biedroń was elected to the Sejm as a candidate of Palikot Movement receiving 16,919 votes in the Gdynia district.[1] He has been a victim of homophobic aggression, attacked physically several times since his election.[2] He is the first openly gay member of the Sejm.[3] In 2014 Biedroń won the mayoral elections in the city of Słupsk, securing 57% of the vote in the second round. He thus became the first openly gay mayor ever in Poland.[1]

Biedroń was awarded the French National Order of Merit on 20 July 2016.

On 4 September 2018, Biedroń launched what he termed a "pro-democratic" political movement aimed at challenging the ruling Law and Justice party.[4]

Personal life

His life partner is Krzysztof Śmiszek.

He identifies as an atheist.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Gay Star News: Poland makes history by electing its first openly gay mayor
  2. ↑ Spiegel.de: Revolution in Polens Provinz: Schwuler erobert Rathaus von Slupsk
  3. ↑ Poland elects first openly gay MP
  4. ↑ "Openly gay Polish mayor launches 'pro-democracy' movement". France 24. 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  5. ↑ "Biedroń: jestem ateistą, ale krzyż jest dla mnie ważny". wprost.pl. Wprost. Retrieved 15 November 2017.


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