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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
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. * gay pride italy 2020 *
“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.
ROME GAY PRI
Natnally and ternatnally Puglia is regnised as Italy’s top gay summer statn for LGBT+ travelers. Inclive and open to all. * gay pride italy 2020 *
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.
LOVE AND PRI PUGLIA – ITALY’S GAY SUMMER PARADISE
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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.
GAY PRI LENDAR 2020
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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.
GAY PUGLIA 2021 | SALENTO & PUGLIA PRI 2021 BRDISI
"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. 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.