“We don’t want to r … in our family”. The words, as reported, were these. And then the blows. A 16-year-old boy was attacked, insulted and beaten for being homosexual. He was struck by his uncle, in the province of Cosenza, and he allegedly acted in agreement with his father. The attack took place on […]
Tag: homophobia
Cristina Prenestina: “My fairy tale against gender barriers”
We tend to make it a question of color. White or black. Pink or blue. Without shades or with a fixed color based on what you do or should be. «The social worker is gray or brown in the collective imagination, a figure that goes from bad to charitable with no middle ground. The drag […]
Homophobic day, Cathy La Torre: “My boobs are important”
“But aren’t there more important things than your boobs?” This is one of the comments lawyer and activist Cathy La Torre read on her profile shortly after she told her about her decision to undergo breast reduction surgery on her social media. “After a few days I started writing the book.” It comes out today […]
How I got back on heels
The Porta Venezia metro in Milan has been covered in rainbow paper for four years: it was Mayor Beppe Sala who asked ATM, the local transport company, to stay that way, after an advertisement had colored it of Netflix on the occasion of gay pride. There, and nowhere else, why that is considered the most […]
Jake Daniels, who is the English footballer who came out
Jake Daniels is 17, plays in the second division of the English league and is the only active male professional footballer in the UK to be openly homosexual. It can be said without fear of denial that it is one of the very few in the world. The attacker of the Blackpool he said to […]
Prato, the school dance that excludes gay couples
Two ministers intervened in the case of the ball Cicognini boarding school in Prato and the question is not yet closed. The Minister of Education and that of Equal Opportunities have had their say in the case that from the local news it has reached the national ones. Last week what was called Debutante’s Ball […]
Canada: homosexuals will be able to donate blood. Where are there still limitations?
The Canada it is the latest country to lift a clearly discriminatory ban. Health Canada, the government’s public health department, has lifted the ban on donating blood for homosexuals. So far they couldn’t do it if they had had sexual intercourse in the three months prior to the donation. The new legislation in force since […]
Sofia Goggia and the sentence about homosexual athletes: “He did not want to be discriminatory”
Gus Kenworthy he was a champion of freestyle skiing, practically flies with his skis upside down and certainly knows how to do any descent on skis. American Andrew Blaser has participated in the last winter games in the skeleton: he is gay and throws himself head on with a sled at over 100 kilometers per […]
Margherita and her homogenitorial family: “We are happy and imperfect like everyone else”
“Try looking into a drop. What do you see? All the drops are different from each other and through each of them you see something different. And in fact one day, two young girlfriends, Mary and Francy, decided to see in a drop a future considered impossible for them: a family “: with this incipit, […]
Alessandro Zan: “In a high school I had to explain why the senators exulted”
The ddl Zan continues his journey in the squares of Italy. More than fifty demonstrations were born in his favor afterwards the sinking in the Senate and above all in response to the exultation shown in the Senate by politicians opposed to the bill against homotransphobia. The signs that follow one another in the Italian […]