I had no doubts that the campaign promoted by the Tuscany Region, which
portrays a blurry image of a sleeping child with a
bracelet with the word "homosexual" written on it, would have sparked a
There's been heated controversy both within and outside the LGBT movement. Questions are being asked:
rightly so if the poster is not too provocative, or does not induce to
to think, as some research states, that one is born homosexual; others
and others indicate in the choice of using an image of a child
yes, a dangerous option that creates divisions and unnecessary exasperation.
As always, good communication experts hit the mark.
when they trigger reactions of different nature. Personally I find the
a good choice because a newborn baby arouses feelings of respect, of
tenderness, of innocence, therefore, the manifesto says: something changes if
Are we telling you he might be gay? Arcigay Bologna
a few years ago he made a beautiful campaign where in a poster he said
it portrayed a firefighter saving a person from the flames, the phrase
underneath was just “Does it change anything if we tell you that it is
homosexual?”
Good to hear the explanations given
from the regional councillor Fragai, from the person who conceived the campaign, the
this is the point: homosexuality is a natural condition,
percentage-relevant, socially emerged thanks to a large
commitment by sexual liberation movements, so, here it is
here, from its possible birth. A condition that matters little
whether it is genetic, developed through experience, chosen over time and so on
Let's not waste time listening to para disquisitions ourselves.
scientific, of cheap psychoanalysis, or of interpretations
policies of decades ago. This is not the issue and it would be curious
we divided to pursue late controversies. We have rightly
shattered centuries-old beliefs about normality
heterosexual, on the immutability of sexual behaviors, on
cultural and social cages that have prevented harmonious
reclaiming one's body and bringing it into harmony with the
individual aspirations. If among exponents of the LGBT movement, of the
women, culture, let's get stuck in this discussion
we would inexorably retreat into the realm of theoretical disquisition
on why one is homosexual. This level is not acceptable because it
we have long since overcome, even by processing, not alone and not alone,
that sexuality is complexity, it is a display of orientations,
behaviors, practices that can hardly be pigeonholed,
because everyone has the right to uniqueness and self-determination.
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only for political convenience, for social and cultural battle, even
expressing some declinations (heterosexual, lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transsexual, etc.) that we too are forced to
forced to catalog. But we know that even in this way
we narrow, we raise fences and we specify by venturing on the
slippery terrains of the explication of vast and intimate sensibilities and
plurals.
To return to the campaign, it seems to me that the message
indicate a possible way to break down prejudices against
homosexuality and tries to make people reflect, as he rightly pointed out
Bruno Pompa of the board of directors of the Cassero of Bologna, in his
nice post on a mailing list, “all parents, or potential
parents, on a characteristic that may also be theirs
son"”. Bruno also reflects on the feelings that
evokes the image of a newborn baby.
It seems to me that reading
Bruno Pompa may belong to all of us, rejecting the
sender the usual and shaky genetic theories, which coincidentally in
decades, spending billions of dollars, have failed to
“discover” whether one is born homosexual, leaving aside the doubt of how it happens
“I was "born" heterosexual. I, like many others, I chose to make
public and social my sexual orientation and this has a value
disruptive politician, because it has changed the way things are in a part of the world
coexistence and improved living conditions, much remains to be done;
that's why I think that little woman or little man, me
you represent.