COSENZA The procession of the “started from Piazza Loreto at 5pmCosenza Pride 2024″, the event organized by Arcigay Cosenza with the collaboration of other associations and with the patronage of the Municipality. The procession ended in Piazza dei Bruzi, in front of the town hall, welcomed by the mayor Franz Caruso. «Our administration – said the mayor of Cosenza – has, since its inauguration, expressed opposition to any form of discrimination and stubbornly reaffirms the vocation of the city of Cosenza which is openly tolerant, inclusive, plural, democratic and always in fight for the recognition of the rights of all, no one excluded. I am proud to have hosted the ‘Cosenza pride 2024’ and I express my great satisfaction because from Cosenza the voice of those who rightly claim the protection of sacrosanct rights that we share and which we will not miss the opportunity to reiterate and reaffirm rises loudly.”
«Cosenza city of rights»
«After years of obscurantism – declared the mayor Franz Caruso – our municipal administration will participate in “Cosenza Pride 2024”, which will see the collaboration of Arcigay Cosenza, Arci Cosenza, CGIL Cosenza and the “Milly Villa” Women’s Studies Center of the University of Calabria”. “The only thing against nature are the southerners who vote for the League” and “Stop genocide, free Palestine” are some of the many banners displayed which recall not only the issues of the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community, but the stop of wars, the rights of women and against differentiated autonomy. «Cosenza is a city of rights – said the delegate for Culture of the Municipality of Cosenza Antonietta Cozza taking part in the procession -. Pride returns to Cosenza after 7 years and returns with the patronage of the Municipality of Cosenza and of this administration which is strongly progressive and above all very attentive to everyone’s rights. Right from the start, when exactly a year ago a technical table for the organization was proposed to us, we immediately moved and made ourselves available because we pay attention to everyone’s rights. For us everyone is equal. This city is a city of great openness and today – he concludes – we are demonstrating it.”
