The rainbow of rights parades for the thirtieth time claiming equality, parity, freedom to choose. There are many, many, perhaps more, at Roma Pride, united under the multi-coloured flag of the LGBTQIA+ community. And from this square the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein responds to the government which she accuses of having “missed another opportunity during the G7 where some words magically disappeared” precisely on rights: “abortion, gender identity and sexual orientation”. “They can erase a few words but they cannot erase our bodies and our fight for the freedom and equality of all people – says Schleim, parading among the rainbow flags and floats – The Democratic Party will fight for equal marriages, for a law against hatred and homotransphobia and for everyone’s rights. After a year and a half of the Meloni government, Italy is lower than Hungary in terms of LGBTQIA+ rights.”
Elly Schlein in the Pride parade in Rome
Words that arrive after the complicated diplomatic match at the G7 precisely on the subject of abortion and the protection of LGBTQI+ people. Also siding with the rainbow community is the M5S leader Conte who promises: “The 5 Star Movement is there and will be there: against reactionary pressures, for rights”. The parade is, as always, a great celebration of struggle, this year led by the mayor Roberto Gualtieri even in the no longer tricolor but rainbow band. There are 40 floats and among the colorful crowd there is also a fake Pope Francy who on a sign admits ‘too much fagotism in this Pride’. Citing the pontiff’s statement on the inadvisability of welcoming gays into seminars is also the +Europa bandwagon, ‘Free fagotism in a Free State, to “put the question of the secularity of the state back at the centre”, says the secretary Riccardo Magi. But here, in the tide that just wants to be itself, freedom is already a fact: young and old, Pride neophytes and veterans, shy and extroverted, some even with little ones in tow, rainbow families or just families ‘because we are all equal’. And then also Palestinian flags and some ‘Free Palestine’ signs, the casus belli of the Jewish queer community’s absence from the demonstration after the Keshet Italia association raised the alarm of a possible climate of anti-Semitic hatred. There are those who try to stop the rainbow wave: Militia Christi defaces the rainbow planters in the municipality of Rome as a sign of protest. In Turin, where another procession takes place, the far right scatters stickers along the route to protest the initiative. Simone Pillon of Pro Vita on On the street in Rome it’s now just a party. The godmother Annalisa makes her dance to her hits, the secretary of the Democratic Party also dances. “We are one million”, the organizers venture, driven by enthusiasm. However, they are many and free to be.
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