Schlein, partner Paola against the stolen photos: “I was overwhelmed by an unfair outing”

“An unjust act, it’s called outing. I was overwhelmed by it, but fortunately not annihilated”. Words by Paola Bellonithe companion of Elly Schlein. Two weeks after posting on Diva and Woman, the weekly gossip of the Cairo group, of the stolen photos that portrayed her next to the new secretary of the Democratic Party, Belloni decided to intervene. A long post, on her Instagram page. She begins with a quote from her partner: “They didn’t see me coming so they pulled out the telephoto lenses.”

Directly addressing the authors of the gossip service (mentioned via schwa: “car* journalist* di Diva and Woman“), Belloni writes that “communicating the emotional intimacy of a person in the press is an unjust act and is called outing. I was overwhelmed by it, but fortunately not annihilated, because I have a network of friends and family that supports me. I just wonder what would have happened if I hadn’t had this network”. It is an outlet, but it is reasoned. The vehicle is a social page from which the search for privacy transpires. Less than two hundred followers and less than two hundred followed profiles ( in both lists, there is Schlein). Just four photos. Anyone who knows the couple a little – she is Sardinian, 28 years old – assures that Schlein’s companion cares about privacy even more than the tenant of the Nazarene, who in fact does not he ever wanted to talk about it.

Belloni’s post is not only personal. He is also – and quite – political. In full harmony with the themes that Schlein has brought to the center of the dem agenda. “In Italy – writes the partner of the Pd leader – we do not have egalitarian marriage, we do not have protection for the sons and daughters of same-parent families, we do not have a law against homolesbotransphobia. We are a country where thousands of ‘expatriates’, for to put it with Desiati, they live or leave their own provinces full of scratches and secrets. Coming out is a personal choice, which also derives from an analysis of one’s social network. I realize that being the companion of a public figure has you made me think – she writes to the weekly – that I have the right to expose what she is exposed to me”. Before turning serious again, Belloni allows himself a joke: “I realize that the photo with the woolen skullcap on his head and with Pila’s toiletry bag in his hand (it’s the cangoline that she shares with Schlein, ed) was remarkable. You have given memes to my friends for the next ten years”. that it always stays the same. Even without a cap. I threw it away.”