Despite the backlash that the gay community is receiving in Poland, husbands Jakub and David are about to star in a TV advert for a condom brand.
Durex in Poland has premiered a TV ad which featured Poland’s most famous gay couple, YouTubers, Jakub and Dawid. It’s part of a new campaign called “Loud In Bed” and is expected to air on all major TV channels in the country.
The ad will also air in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lithuania.
Recently the couple took to the streets of Poland to give out rainbow face masks in the fight against Coronavirus and homophobia and the results were a mix of gratitude and threats of violence.
Husbands Jakub and David took to the streets of Poland to give out rainbow face masks in the fight against Coronavirus and homophobia and the results were a mix of gratitude and threats of violence.
Poland has had a spotlight shone on its “LGBT Free Zones” recently and as LGBT+ rights are seemingly threatened in this part of Europe, the couple are keen to be visible and work with the public.
Jakub and David visited three LGBT FREE ZONES in East Poland – small towns called Mordy, Trzebieszów and Biała Podlaska. They gave away over 200 hundreds of rainbow masks in each spot.
Watching the movie you can see that it wasn’t very safe and anything could happen. Some people didn’t like the rainbow, one man threatened that he would punch their faces if they didn’t leave but the husband’s found most people’s reactions positive.
Giving away rainbow masks is Jakub’s and David’s way to fight against COVID 19 and homophobia in their country.
According to the last report of ILGA EUROPE – Poland is the worst country for LGBT people in the European Union so they still have plenty to do in their country
Proposing just the once can be nerve-racking enough but this Polish couple did it a whopping 100 times to see what public reactions were like.
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You may remember Jakub and David as the Polish LGBT activist and vlogger couple who are trying to change the public’s perceptions of LGBT+ people in Poland. Since their very first video, the duo has faced hideous homophobia as well as death threats including a threat to have their throats slit, in their home country of Poland.
Against all odds, the couple actually tied the knot last year, although not in their home country, because Poland does not yet offer it’s lesbian and gay couples same-sex marriage.
To gauge the public’s reaction to two men proposing to each other, Jakub and David took to the streets of Warsaw to propose marriage in front of strangers and filmed their responses.
They recorded the reactions with hidden cameras and asked unsuspecting members of the public to take part in the experiment, by asking them to film the proposal, without them realising that the proposal would be to another man.
A spokesperson for the couple, Robert Peszek said, “Surprisingly it turned out that people totally accept them and wished them all the best. They didn’t cut any hates or bad people reactions. It’s absolutely wonderful and enormously uplifting for all LGBT society in Poland what they did.”
Ahhh! So sweet, Jakub and Dawid, the internet sensations from Poland have got married in a stunning cliff side wedding in Madeira.
CREDIT: Magdalena Sobieska
Despite the criticism and homophobic they have faced in their homeland, Polish couple Jakub and Dawid have finally tied the knot, although not in their own country because Poland does not yet have same-sex marriage.
In a statement the couple said,
“It’s sad that we cannot get married in Poland but we are aware that’s not gonna be changed anytime soon in our country, so decided to have it abroad.
“I wish our grandmothers and grandfathers were with us but the journey would have been too exhausting them so we really missed them. If we were allowed to have this ceremony in Poland they would have been allowed to share these moments with us”.
CREDIT: Magdalena Sobieska
The couple invited 20 members of their family and friends including Dawid’s mum, two brothers and Jakub’s sister according to guests at the wedding the couple’s “dreams finally came true”.
Well, Jakub and David are back with a brand new video. Despite hideous homophobic threats, the two lovers have chosen a song native to their own country, made famous by a pop Diva, Beata Kozidrak, from Poland.
The Polish superstar who is a gay icon in Poland loved video so much that shared it on her official site sending congratulations to them.
The couple said, “We wanted to show that you can have a fun for a whole year”.
A gay couple has received a number of death threats after their boyfriend video went viral in their home country of Poland.
The video of Jacob and David singing along to Some Other Summer by Roxette went viral after it was first shared by THEGAYUK. However it wasn’t until the story was picked up in their native Poland that the negative comments started to flood in.
The pair has been told that their throats should be slit and that they should be sent to the gas chamber. The comments have left the boyfriends “devastated” especially after the reception from the UK and US had been so positive.
Writing to THEGAYUK David and Jacob said,
“Everything changed when (the) Polish media found the story. It appeared on several Polish sites and people reaction was totally different.
“We knew that Polish society is very Catholic and conservative but we still expected that they would be proud of us and our job.
“We were wrong”.
The boyfriends were subjected to a slew of negative and homophobic comments. In the video, the couple is seen dancing with each other and playing around the sea’s surf.
There were some positive comments, but most of them were very homophobic and aggressive.
“We read comments like: “‘You should be ashamed of you(rself)’, ‘I’ll cut your throats if I ever meet you’ and ‘You should be send to a gas chamber’, we were really devastated.”
The video has now surpassed over 200,000 videos on YouTube.
The Jakub and David revealed that they had considered taking the video down but decided to face down their bullies saying,
“In UK I learned to be proud of being gay and didn’t want to change it so we finally came to the conclusion that if we did it we would have let them win so we decided not to give up and spread our story all around.”
The band behind the song, Roxette have also lent their support to the video telling their fans that “Love is Love”.
Two gorgeous Polish boyfriends made an unofficial video for their YouTube channel of the Roxette song “Some Other Summer” – little did they know that Roxette would watch it and love it!
UPDATED: 11th August 2016
Boyfriends Jakub and David had no idea that the band Roxette would ever see their video of “Some Other Summer”, let alone love it – but that’s what happened.
The multi-platinum selling Roxette shared the video on their official Facebook, saying “Nice One, Cheers” after the video was upload 3 weeks ago.
The video was shot by the boyfriends, aided by Chris and Michael whilst they were on holiday. Michael who wrote to THEGAYUK to share the video said,
“(It was) Really amazing gesture from the pop icon and huge pleasure for them. It’s really cool and happy and I’m also proud cause I was helping them with montage.”
