According to the Arcigay, were one million people in a hundred Italian cities in support of the bill Cirinnà for civil unions, which will be discussed in the Senate Thursday, January 28
Piazza della Rotonda was packed with people. Opposite the Pantheon fluttering rainbow flags, balloons and pink banners. They sounded alarms. “Wake up Italy”, he shouted the square. This is the slogan launched by the LGBT associations that organized the demonstrations across Italy in favor of civil unions and the full rights of homosexual couples and their families.
“One million people in 100 Italian cities,” says the ‘ Arcigay . “A historic day for this country, a massive mobilization that has nourished the desire and enthusiasm of so many who care about the value of equality.”
True, the people were so many; certainly in the thousands. There were children, the elderly, families ‘traditional’ heterosexual, gay, Catholics, Muslims. A mixture of people who gathered at three in the afternoon on a Saturday whatever, but that they hope will go down in history.
Indeed, Thursday, January 28, the Senate will discuss the bill proposed by Senator PD Monica Cirinnà. The new law would serve to protect the rights of gay couples in Italy, one of the eight European states still without any kind of law that protects gay families.
On social networks demonstrations for the rights of the LGBT community have been compared to those for the right to vote for women, to those for divorce, for the rights of African-Americans in the United States. It seems to be the next step towards a more civilized society, a natural step, a step short.
“Think what will laugh in ten years when we look back on this day and we will say ‘remember when gay people could not get married and we went to protest’? Seem so absurd, “he says laughing my friend Emanuele.
“We are not second-class citizens, we are people, we pay taxes, but most of all we fall in love and we are part of the blood of this country, so it is right that we have the same rights as everyone else,” adds a little ‘more serious.
He believes that the law will pass. Moreover, last July the European Court of Human Rights condemned Italy for violating the rights of three same-sex couples, not allowing her to legalize their status in the country. The government had responded by saying that it would try to change the situation. With the bill Cirinnà, this is possible.
Yet there are those opposed to Emanuel is not so optimistic. Perhaps because they are so many years waiting for a change that does not seem to arrive.
“I am 47 years old. It will be 27 years that I expect something from the Italian state. I was also an activist, but I’m disgusted. I do not think this will ever read, “says Frederick. He points to his friends and adds, “They have been together for 19 years, but for the state this pair does not exist.”
“We are heterosexual, but we took to the streets because freedom belongs to everyone,” says Martina.
“I’m here for civil rights and I really want to pass this law,” Daniela hopes. “Many people are against just because they are misinformed. It is important to explain well the different points of the bill Cirinnà so that there is less possibility of confusion around “.
While on the one hand many are convinced we are witnessing a historic moment for Italy, secular country but strongly linked to Catholic values, on the other hand there are those who do not find anything shocking in the new bill.
“The law Cirinnà born already old, already dead. It does not satisfy me. I’m with my partner for 16 years and tried to marry twice without success, to a town hall and the court of Rome, “he said Fabrizio, who carries a placard around his neck that says” Why me vojo Bride “. When I ask why it is in the streets to defend a law that does not convince him, he says “I’m here to defend my rights, not the law.”
“The rights of a company are all important and a democratic society should be based on equality among its citizens. In Italy it seems to me that people are ahead of the government, “he says with regret that Rita, at age 78, it took to the streets and it is taking advantage to eat ice cream in the center.
Miles instead, an Englishman married to an Italian girl, looks at me weird when I ask him why he came to demonstrate. “Why is it right,” says airtight.
Among the most discussed points of the bill Cirinnà is what about the stepchild adoption , you would give to a member of a couple bound by a civil union the opportunity to adopt the biological child or adopted child of their own companion.
“A child needs someone to love him, and that’s it,” believes Maria.
As I’m leaving the place I come across a couple of Italian white with a black child with a pink balloon in hand. They are standing in front of a window in a side of the square. They’re watching a crib.
“Are you religious?” I ask.
“No, but this is tradition, the theater,” she says Maurizio.
“Were you at the event?”
“Yes, because I think there is still a disgrace that a law of this type”, takes over his wife Valeria.
“Your child is adopted?”
“Yup”.
“What do you think of adoptions by same-sex couples?”
“We are absolutely favorable. A child needs to roles. Of competent adults who know how to love him and who know him feel loved. So how can it not be appropriate some heterosexual couples may not be appropriate some same-sex couples. Their competence as parents is not dependent on certain sexual orientation, “said Valeria.
The small Héritier continues to set the crib, enchanted with the balloon fuchsia always clutched in his hand. It arrived in Italy from Congo about three years ago. His parents seem to love him very well. They have explained why it is there. He explained why the balloon is fuchsia. Héritier means “heir”, and Maurice and Valeria want to be sure to leave a more civilized world as an inheritance to their son.
As I walk away I can not stop looking at them. I’m really a nice family, and not because they are a “traditional” family, but because they love and remind me that love blossoms between people, not between genders, ethnicities or religions.
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