“Aren’t you ashamed?”. This is what Jean Pierre Moreno, a refugee and member of the Gaynet Roma association, and his partner, Alfredo Zenobio, heard, kissing at the Valle Aurelia station in Rome, while he was waiting for the train. It happened on February 26, around nine in the evening, but only in these days has yet another case of homophobia been disclosed.
The man approached them and kicked and punched them. “Almost by a miracle,” said the association, “without serious physical consequences despite the violence with which the subject has lashed out, as seen in the video shot by a friend of the couple who was with them.
Jean Pierre’s partner was also marginally hit and filed a complaint ». Publishing the video served precisely to show the homophobic origin of the attack.
HOMOPHOBIA, GAYNET ROME: OUR MEMBER ATTACKED IN AURELIA STATION, DIFFICULT TO REPORT HOMOPHOBIC MOVEMENT WITHOUT A LAW
VIDEO: https://t.co/8zVttRasJK#leggezan @davocearispetto #davocerispetto #stopomophobia #dirittialsenate
– Gaynet Roma (@Gaynet_Roma) March 20, 2021
Rosario Coco, Gaynet Roma referent, explained to Corriere della Sera: “We now await the pronouncement of the public prosecutor on what happened, hoping that everything possible will be done to identify the aggressor and to classify this offense in the best possible way according to the current legal instruments. The Zan Law, pending definitive approval in the Senate, would certainly have required the authorities to immediately ascertain the possible motive for the facts on the basis of homotransphobic hatred ”.
24-year-old Jean Pierre comes from Nicaragua and thought he was safe in Italy, that he could live his story in the light of the sun. This is not the case according to the data of a crime, that of homotransphobia, which is not recognized in Italy. The Zan law, passed to the House, was not scheduled in the Senate. But the attacks are there. According to data from the gay help line 800.713.713 in the last year there have been 20 thousand requests for help arrived at the toll-free number, for the most part of young people between 12 and 27 years old.
Massimo Battaglio collects the cases reported in the media for the Gionata project. “Over the past ten years we have recorded an average of 12 victims per month,” he told the newspaper The print, “There has been a significant increase over the past three years. 2020 recorded 179 cases. Fifteen cases a month. Of course, now the wave is increasing and decreasing according to the restrictions from Covid “.
Complaints are lacking, due to lack of confidence in the law, but also because denouncing for some means coming out. They are not only physical but also assaults street insults and discrimination like the cases, often in the news, in which it is told of rights denied to the LGBT community. Raffaele, 30 years old from Caserta, was refused the rent of an apartment. LGBT activist Antonio Parisi was insulted and beaten in Trieste. Only part of those that occur daily according to the associations.
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