Among the many banners ‘For the secular state we abolish Concordat’.
(ANSA) – ROME, JUN 26 – The opening banner, and also the slogan, of Roma Pride, in Piazza Vittorio in the heart of the Esquilino district, is “Pride and Ostentation”, but flanked by many who reply to the Vatican’s objections on the Zan bill, including: “For the secularity of the state, we abolish the concordat”.
“Pride – explain the organizers – because no moment of crisis can stop the pride of the LGBTQIA + community. Ostentation because no ‘adversary’ can try to ‘normalize’ the subjectivities, relationships, bodies of the community. Roma Pride is ostentation, it is pride is struggle.
This year’s political document also focuses on the need to find a new normal, different from the one we feel we have lost due to the pandemic. Finding oneself means rediscovering spaces and making them passable and knowable. The goal of this Pride is to be able to rewrite an inclusive world, in which violence, hatred, obscurantism are just a bad dream “.
“On the other hand, the current situation, just think of the Zan bill, takes us back too many years, years in which our community was marginalized, isolated, judged. – says Claudio Mazzella, spokesman for Roma Pride – We feel the duty to remember that no one must ask for permission to determine one’s life. Happiness is a right that should not be mistaken for any ‘good rule’. We can no longer be afraid of living in the open, we are no longer willing to sacrifice our dignity to have pieces in exchange of rights, because rights cannot be bargaining chips. For this reason, we do not hide ourselves, for this reason we want to return to the streets with ‘pride and ostentation’. (ANSA).