He Government of the Italian region of Laziowith its capital in Rome, since March in the hands of the right, announced on Monday that withdraw sponsorship of Gay Pride rally in the capital, the largest in the country, four days before its celebration.
The regional government justified its decision by its rejection of “demonstrations aimed at promote illegal behaviorespecially if they allude to the practice of the so-called ‘surrogacy‘” according to a statement released by local media.
He was referring to the manifesto of the “Gay Pride” in Rome this Saturday, entitled “QueeResistenza” and that, among other things, it calls for “a law that enter and regulate also in Italy a ethical and supportive surrogacybased on the full respect of all the people involved”.
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Lazio has been chaired since March by Francesco Rocasupported by the right-wing coalition that governs the countryformed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, Matteo Salvini’s League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.
Precisely The Government has promoted a bill that prohibits and sanctions the recourse to surrogate motherhood or “rental womb” also abroadbecause in Italy it is already prohibited.
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He ultra-conservative movement “Pro-Life and Family” had claimed days before to Rocca to withdraw sponsorship of the Roman “Pride” since, in his opinion, he advocates “legalizing the ‘rental womb’, equal marriage, homosexual adoptions or the inclusion in the registries of the ‘children’ of gay couples”, reads a note.
The spokesman for “Roma Pride”, Mario Colmarino, He denounced that “Pro Vida orders and politics obeys” and assured that will not remove the logo of the regional government of the march this Saturday.
“Since the region of Lazio belongs to the citizens and citizens, and therefore our, and not from a group of catholic talibanwe will not remove the logo,” he challenged in a statement.
He Roman “pride” has numerous marks among his sponsors but also public institutions as the city hall of Rome or the embassies of Spainwith its Cultural Office, from Belgium, Ireland, the United States, Canada or Sweden.
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The measure has given rise to criticism from the center and left oppositionwho see it as a “serious” and “obscurantist” precedent.
“This has nothing to do with ‘rental wombs’ or with the alleged illegal behaviors to which the regional Board alludes: the withdrawal of sponsorship of ‘Roma Pride’ proves once again that with ‘Brothers of Italy’ Homophobia has been institutionalized in the government“, denounced the activist and leader of +Europa, Riccardo Magi.
