Italy’s Pri Wave – LGBTQ+ Pri Italy 2020 | The Big Gay Puglia Gui

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

GAY ITALY

“We’re livg fear, ” Mar said, cg the example of a gay iend who was almost killed by his antagonist followg repeated harassment.

“This guy me to simply bee he hat gays. This isn’t anythg new, happens to gay people all the time, but many do not report through fear. ”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. In addn, would crimalise a spate of recent attacks agast gay people, proponents argue that the legislatn is urgently need. Ls than two weeks later, a gay uple were asslted by a group of six after they kissed each other at a tra statn Cque Terre, Liguria.

ROME GAY PRI

Fabriz Marrazzo, a spokperson for Gay Centre, a Rome-based associatn, said received about 20, 000 reports of discrimatn agast LGBT people a year, of which about 9% are severe.

Alsandro Zan, a gay polician wh the Democratic party, part of the lg aln, and archect of the draft legislatn, was threatened wh ath by an onle opponent unls he whdrew the bill. Another Sicily who opposed the law said durg a sermon: “If you exprs an opn agast homosexuals, or don’t agree wh two men adoptg a child, you uld end up jail. ”Zan said: “While is te that there is still strong homophobia, stemmg om a patriarchal culture, the untry has also ma progrs.

"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.

LOVE AND PRI PUGLIA – ITALY’S GAY SUMMER PARADISE

(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.

GAY PRI LENDAR 2020

"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.

"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.

GAY PUGLIA 2021 | SALENTO & PUGLIA PRI 2021 BRDISI

Now, s revery hg on themKntg is helpg this Canadian Italy make sense of the COVID-19 panmicWhat is jt as ncerng durg the panmic, say experts, are policians targetg gay and trans people as a way to divert attentn away om the enomic challeng of month, the ILGA-Europe, an LGBTQ rights group, sound alarm bells about the rise homophobic language and polil hate speech agast transgenr people Europe durg the s latt annual report, found that policians 17 untri Europe and Central Asia, Italy among them, have verbally attacked LGBTQ people.

'LGBT-ee zon' PolandThe suatn untri such as Poland, where a natnalist ernment has been openly hostile to s gay populatn and where 100 regns, towns and ci passed anti-gay rolutns, creatg so-lled "LGBT-ee zon, " is pecially week, a Polish urt acquted activists acced of offendg relig sentiment for producg imag of a Roman Catholic in that clud the LGBTQ rabow — a form of prott, the activists say, agast a homophobic Polish Catholic Brex — the EU is tryg to put out a fire the eastPoland's LGBT muny gets unexpected alli bee of a patg looted by NazisUnr Pope Francis, the Italian Catholic Church has been more tolerant of LGBTQ people — wh one Rome parish offerg shelter to migrant trans sex workers durg the panmic and the Pope tellg parents of LGBTQ children that the Church lov their Italy, one of the last major European untri to regnize same-sex unns 2016, still don't offer legal protectn agast hate speech to gay and trans 's a suatn Italian MP Alsandro Zan has been tryg to addrs for several years.

Simone Pillon, a member of the Lega party and anizer of so-lled Fay Day ralli agast same-sex marriage and Pillon repeatedly acced an LGBTQ group of "lurg mors" and "distributg pornography" for handg out gay-posive sex tn brochur, a lower urt found him guilty of famatn. This year alone, ILGA-Europe documented 138 hate crim agast Italy's gay muny, cludg vlent attacks and murrs of gay and trans have also been several s of policians nouncg LGBTQ people, wh Rome Cy Coun. Massiiano Quarima statg at a meetg last summer that "homosexualy is a disease … ed by vacc.