“We only want melons in the supermarket”, reiterates the sign behind the most colorful float of all: that of the Ecuadorian community, with boys and girls in strollers with rainbow flags and Orgullo Gay t-shirts. Pope Francis is also there, at Liguria Pride: white dress and ad hoc mask to loudly shout the pride of “faggotness”. “The real fagot music is ours”, the Transatlantica Festival float chants into the megaphone. Here it is, the Liguria Pride of Genoa which on election day turns up the volume on the theme of rights: the right to love, to be recognized as families, with the Pippo Train loaded with those children who don’t exist for the government (“Salvini and co are so convinced of families traditional people who have a collection”, is the sign of Michele Coletta, that she and her husband’s battle, together with their twins, has been set to music by recording singles against discrimination). Right to one’s non-binary identity, rights of Palestine, also forcefully claimed by the bandwagon of the community of San Benedetto al Porto, still in a stubborn and contrary direction, with the sociologist Luisa Stagi on board next to Megu Chionetti.There is the activist Carlotta Vagnoli, with the “Sabotage with Grace” shopper. There are scouts, from Genoa and Arenzano, from eight to sixteen years old and the sign “Even wolves know how to raise children with love – see Mowgli).
There are women who march against patriarchal violence, in this demonstration opened by the Liguria Pride float while the catchphrase Freed from desire pumps from the speakers. Many young people, the Pansoti activist group. And the families: all the families. Like that of Alessia Manenti, in the square with her partner and their child Sergio, sixteen months old: “We are teachers of Mathematics and Physics, it is important to get these messages across as soon as possible – she says with the child in her arms – it is very important that our son grows up in love towards others, whatever type of love it is. Let him immediately understand that these realities must be considered normal more than ever. We try to convey all this to our students in the classroom: and we see more awareness among students.”
