Bergamo’s LGBT+ associations are asking candidates for the next municipal elections to sign a ten-point program against discrimination. On May 17th at 6pm in the Galmozzi room in via Tassoon the occasion of the celebration of the International Day against homolesbobitransphobia, the Associations and Bodies participating in the permanent table established by the Municipality of Bergamo will present the document of commitment to the implementation of a ten-point program aimed at combating all forms of discrimination racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability. The ten points will be presented and then the signatures of all the candidates will be collected who “intend to publicly commit to the implementation of the requests indicated in the document”.
These are the ten points. The candidate undertakes to:
1. to use language that is respectful of all people, with clear positions against discrimination, speech and hate crimes, avoiding the use of offensive expressions, as well as discriminatory language or incitement to hatred towards individuals or groups based on racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity or any other personal characteristic including disability;
2. to promote training courses on the content of the anti-discrimination legislation aimed at people employed in administrative offices and municipal law enforcement agencies with the aim of sharing lexicons and practices to encourage the prevention of homolesbobitransphobia and any
other form of discrimination;
3. to establish a rights office within a department that constitutes a reference for issues relating to the LGBTQIA+ community and in general aimed at the anti-discrimination protection of all social categories at risk provided for by law as provided for by Legislative Decree 215/2003, 216/2003 and 198/2006 (sex, race, ethnic origin, nationality. belonging
religion, age, disability, personal beliefs, sexual orientation and gender identity), with powers to verify the activity of the administrative bodies and intervene if necessary. The Office will also have to monitor the effectiveness of the policies and interventions promoted
by the administration through the creation of a verification system;
4. to rework all municipal forms with a view to respecting inclusive language and to commit to using the same inclusive language in communicating and drafting administrative documents;
5. to engage in the distribution of tasks and the assignment of tasksincluding institutional ones, where there is a right to choose and it is possible to take into account, under equal access conditions, the representation of people carrying the risk of marginalization and
discrimination;
6. the formalization, in contracts with suppliers and users of goods and services, in favor of or by the public administration, of anti-discrimination clauses which require the adoption of codes of ethics, or similar instruments, which establish the principle of combating any form of
discrimination also linked to sexual orientation and gender identity and their respect;
7. to support, including financially, the celebration of every occasion useful for combating discrimination; for example: patronage and support for Pride and cultural proposals aimed at valorising the plurality of imaginaries and representations that favor positive processes for the LGBTQIA+ community, participation in days against disability, against
homolesbobitransphobia, of memory, against gender violence;
8. to allow each person to use a chosen name on identification cards and in internal documents within the public administration, to promote the inclusion of non-binary and non-conforming people and to adapt all ancillary services to public municipal spaces, such as bathrooms, to the genderless model;
9. to adopt a regulation for the concession of public spaces municipal, even through intermediaries, to associations and bodies that are committed to combating fascism and any type of discrimination;
10. to commit to the choice of street toponymy and in the establishment of plaques or symbols to identify people linked to the history of civil rights
