by Elle Biscarini
According to the organisation, around 10 thousand of them parade at the Umbria Pride ‘Guastafeste’. Departure at 4pm from the Etruscan Arch, the colorful and festive tide crossed the streets of Perugia in a procession culminating in the Carducci gardens. «There is a need for Pride – says the secretary of Omphalos, Lorenzo Ermenegildi Zurlo – today more than ever, with the political situation in which we find ourselves. Going to vote is essential.”
The parade Great participation this year for Pride: 10 thousand attendees according to the organization. Associations from all over Umbria met in the shadow of the Etruscan Arch and then set off in procession towards the Acropolis. Also present were the LGBT associations of the province of Terni, the Rainbow Families, the Union of atheists and rationalist agnostics – Uaar, the student and workers’ unions, Udu, the Middle Students’ Network, Link, Uds and CGIL, and representatives of the major parties of left. Also leading Pride is Vittoria Ferdinandi, mayoral candidate for the broad field.
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The themes This year’s theme, ‘Party Killers’, is explained to the speakers mounted on the floats, by the Drag Queens protagonists of Be Queer, the well-known LGBTQIA+ evening: «We are party poopers because we ruin the party for the norm. Let us fearlessly take to the streets all the subjectivities marginalized, ridiculed and oppressed by a system built for the well-being only of those who respect its standards. We are killjoys because we go too far, because we put our foot down, because we don’t fit in. We are not going to live in silence and suppress our identities.” The various souls of the community take turns on the Carducci stage: from the rights of rainbow families, to the protection of the law on abortion and the possibility of accessing it safely, to the issues of the trans community, which in recent days has seen exclude from the ministerial table on gender dysphoria, established by the Ministry of Family and Health.
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Palestine and elections In this year’s Umbria Pride, not only LGBTQIA+ issues, but also a look at the world. Among the crowd, several Palestinian flags and keffiyehs are waving. Appeals are being made for a ceasefire and a stop to the genocide. And then again the elections, the administrative ones and the European ones. «Going to vote is important – they say from the stage in the Carducci gardens – if we don’t go to vote we let others choose for us and we don’t want that. The party breaks down especially in the voting booth.”
