The COVID-19 panmic has left supports for LGBTQ youth Italy and elsewhere Europe thly stretched – puttg thoands of young gay and transgenr people at even greater risk.
Contents:
- GAY ITALY
- ROME GAY PRI
- LOVE AND PRI PUGLIA – ITALY’S GAY SUMMER PARADISE
- GAY PRI LENDAR 2020
- GAY PUGLIA 2021 | SALENTO & PUGLIA PRI 2021 BRDISI
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”Although Italy approved same-sex civil unns 2016, the untry lags behd s EU partners creatg anti-homophobia measur.
Photograph: Ricrdo Antimiani/EPAAttempts by var ernments over the past three s to enshre gay rights law have eher been stifled or sabotaged.
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In addn, would crimalise a spate of recent attacks agast gay people, proponents argue that the legislatn is urgently need.
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"My boyiend and I tried to fd work to support ourselv, but 's difficult to get hired for young, gay people a cy like Napl. (Megan Williams/CBC)Through a work of Italian LGBTQ associatns, the Gay Center Rome — one of few Italian refug for young LGBTQ kids distrs — was alerted to Franc's suatn and took him and his boyiend . The group home provid hog, food and support for more than a year, until the two were able to lnch a new, pennt life the Italian wh the onset of the COVID-19 panmic, the kds of lifel for LGBT youth Italy and elsewhere Europe are even more thly stretched – puttg thoands of young gay and transgenr people, trapped fai that refe to accept them, at even greater risk.
"Large numbers of LGBTQ youth isolated, prsedIn a survey of 2, 445 Italian LGBTQ youth rried out by the Gay Helple after the first lockdown the sprg of 2020, half of rponnts reported facg problems of acceptance and support om their fai, wh 70 per cent feelg isolated and 56 per cent feelg prsed. "We have s of kids g out to their parents durg the lockdown and parents punishg them by takg away their puters and cell phon, claimg they're protectg them om gay propaganda, " she said.
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"Alsandra Rossi of the Gay Center Rome worri about young gay and transgenr kids trapped homophobic fai durg COVID-19.
(Megan Williams/CBC)Rossi says her experience as a group home worker, homophobic fathers are more likely to rort to physil vlence reactn to a child g out. Mothers, she says, tend to exert psychologil prsure on their gay or trans children to nform — not jt to heterosexual norms, but stereotypil genr rol.