Pride has invaded the streets of Rome between rainbow flags, sequins, music and messages on rights and freedoms. A crowd spread between Piazza della Repubblica and Via Giovanni Amendola. «Sincerely», Annalisa’s hit and anthem of the event resounds from the float of the Rome Pride Coordination. Among the floats also those of +Europe with the slogan «Free faggot in a free state». Young activists from Amnesty International hold up signs saying “stop selling arms to Israel” and “peaceful protest is not a crime”. A party of rights that is not afraid to take decisive positions. A minor in the crowd instead holds up a sign that says: “You shouldn’t be interested in how a trans person has sex.”
Pride Rome, Schlein: “We have always defended LGBTQIA+ rights, another opportunity was missed at the G7”
The secretariat of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein he did not fail to underline the importance of rights: «We will continue to defend the rights of LGBTQIA+ people despite the government having missed another opportunity during this G7 where some words magically disappeared. The word abortion, gender identity, sexual orientation. They can erase some words but they cannot erase our bodies and our fight for the freedom and equality of all people”We as PD will continue to fight for equal marriages, for a law against hatred and homomobilesbotransphobia and for the rights of all children of same-parent couples. We will move forward because it is a shame that after a year and a half of this Meloni government, Italy has slipped to 36th position out of 48 in Europe, lower than Hungary. on LGBTQIA+ rights. We will continue to fight, love does not discriminate.”
Rome Pride 2024, Schlein sings “Apnea” on the float with Annalisa
The Capitol in a note reported a protest gesture by some militants Militia Christi, who have smeared the vases placed in Piazza dell’Esquilino by the garden service of the Environmental Protection Department with the colors of the rainbow flag. «This morning the citizens of Esquiline and the LGBTQIA+ community woke up with dirty vases, a way of saying No to Pride. For three years we have greeted the passage of Pride with rainbow vases as a sign of friendship and closeness to the LGBTQIA+ community – declared the councilor for Agriculture, Environment and Waste Cycle Sabrina Alfonsi – Such an act had never happened. This is a cowardly act committed at night, the result of a climate that is worsening but which we forcefully reject. The Garden Service staff is already working to cover the writings.”
The secretary of +Europa, Riccardo Magi, declared: «We think that the position of the rights of LGBTQIA+ people is the indicator of the health of a democracy. We decided to dedicate our float to the slogan “Free fagots in a free state”, quoting the pontiff in one of his not-so-happy remarks which however allows us to put the question of the secularity of the state back at the centre. This is not an outdated issue as many mistakenly believe – he continues – in the world there are Islamic or other fundamentalist regimes that oppress LGBT people and there are also so-called illiberal democracies that go backwards and the same thing happens. We are sorry that in Italy we have a government and a majority that are clearing away state homophobia, they do it with the political culture that they express every time they speak.”
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