Gay Pride, clashes in Lazio No support also in Lombardia- Corriere.it

The clash over Roma Pride, the lgbtqia+ procession that will parade through the streets of the capital on Saturday, after the either-or launched by the governor of Lazio, Francesco Rocca, to the organizers: his condition for granting patronage again, revoked in controversy with the “degrading practice” of the rented uterus, is that the spokesman, Nicola Colamarino, “apologies for the exploitation and the unacceptable provocation”. The activist, however, keeps the point: “The modern version of the sale of indulgences … Clearly there will be no excuses, no one has manipulated anyone”. And he pricks with an emphasis: “They should have known what the instances were.” In the meantime, other administrations led by the centre-right are in line: yesterday the Lombardy Regional Council rejected the motion to indicate its own delegate to Pride in Milan and the Municipality of Gorizia denied sponsorship of the event.

From the opposition Riccardo Magi, secretary of +Europa, launches the hashtag #revocatestocarro and attacks: «How embarrassing, how sad… It’s really serious, but it’s the sign of this right-wing government that is scrambling to find reasons. In reality it is their identity that comes out and takes over». Alessia Moretti, dem MEP, accuses the majority of “slipping towards the Middle Ages” and fears “retrograde” drifts with the risk for Italy of “dangerously approaching Orbán’s Hungary and Poland”. From the M5S Fabio Massimo Castaldo, vice president of the lgbtqia+ intergroup in Brussels, stigmatizes the move by governor Rocca, “who returns to us the discriminatory, intolerant and homophobic gaze of the right”. Solidarity with the promoters also from Elodie, godmother of the last edition, who is indignant on Instagram: «All my support to those who promote a society that respects everyone! Shame”.

The parties in government lock down the decision to withdraw support for Roma Pride with the secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini, who reiterates his position: «I am against the uterus for rent. Point. And against anyone who proposes and defends surrogate uterus. Then I don’t know the events of the Lazio Region, so I won’t comment on them ». On social networks, Senator Maurizio Gasparri (FI) relaunched: «The trafficking of the uterus, of oocytes and then of children is one of the most serious horrors of our time. Those who defend these practices do not deserve the patronage of the institutions”. The blue Giorgio Mulè shares the mantra that he resonates among the allies: “The demonstration was politicized, it would have been enough for the paragraph on pregnancy to have been expunged for others and the Lazio Region would have maintained its patronage”. The group leader in the Justice Committee, Carolina Varchi (FdI), insists on the fact that the event has assumed the character of a “challenge to the State in open contrast with our legal system which punishes the practice of rented wombs as a crime”.

If the lack of patronage of the Region at the rainbow parade it was already a certainty in Lombardy, yesterday it was decided that this year there will not even be an official representative of the Regional Council at the Milano Pride on June 24th. The Pirellone rejected a motion which asked, as happened last year, that a representative of the Region participate in the procession wearing the green band. A step back decided by the majority with 43 no and 23 yes, to the cry of “yes inclusion, no to divisive demonstrations”: for the councilors of the Lega, Forza Italia and Fratelli d’Italia the demonstration is “dangerously” close to battles such as the The uterus for rent and the “offensive” signs that appeared in previous editions do the rest. The dem Paola Bocci is clear, for whom “the right in the end makes the right” with a “short-sighted and backward” choice. For the pentastellata Paola Pizzighini “discrimination is palpable”. While Onorio Rosati (Left Green Alliance) is amazed that “in this Region, where freedom of choice is claimed, it is possible to do so in everything except in the personal sphere”.

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