Journalist, Catholic anti-fascist and now also champion of LGBT rights. Serena Bortone he will be among the “artists” who will perform at Pride Croisette, the Rome Pride village which will be set up at the Baths of Caracalla from 1st to 15th June.
The presenter of What will be rather than performing, as stated in the press release released today by the organizers, he will certainly limit himself to participating in some thematic conferences as Vladimir Luxuria will probably do. The goal of Pride is that of “involve audiences of different ages and interests, raise their awareness of the issue of civil rights through multiple forms of art and culture”, we read again in the press release. An objective which, according to one of Bortone’s latest rants, seems very dear to the Rai journalist. After the Scurati case, on which Rai president Marinella Soldi also reiterated that there was no censorship in the Rai Supervisory Commission, the Rai presenter began to expose herself more politically and, during an episode of her program, she railed against Massimo Magliaro, deputy director of Tg1 from 1994 to 1996 and president of the Almirante Foundation, on the topic of “gender theory”. “Living in a country that does not recognize civil rights, or that discriminates, regardless of my sexual orientation and gender identity, makes me feel like a second-class citizen”, Bortone said.
Bortone had already had a disagreement with Magliaro when the topic fell on the ideological differences between Nazism and fascism. “Fascism is one thing, Nazism is another thing, they have absolutely nothing to do with it. Nazism is pagan and the fascism has Christian origins. They are two totally different things. Political lack of culture has made them become the same, but they are profoundly different”, the former deputy director of Tg1 had said. A sentence that immediately sent the presenter into a rage: “Since I am Catholic, saying that fascism is Christian wants to include the axiom that Matteotti’s crime is Christian.” And Bortone, also known for having led the campaign for the Democratic Party primaries in 2007 as communications and press office manager, lets off steam: “I don’t even get to the racial laws because it’s easy to criticize those. Easy in a way of speaking, given that it was an absolute aberration. But we must say that the beginning of fascism was based on the Matteotti crime.
And you can’t tell me that the Matteotti crime is something Christian.” Could this be a strategy by Bortone to become the new Lilli Gruber?
