Pavia. "Different but united for rights."«

PAVIA, Italy. In the streets for equality in diversity, because, as the national president of Arcigay reminded us, "Freedom, where it is realized, is for everyone." Intrigued seniors gathered on the benches in Piazza della Vittoria to watch the unusual duo of presenters: drag queen Carla Stracci, an Arcigay activist, and Fabio Pirastu of the Italian Union for the Fight against Muscular Dystrophy, who lives in a wheelchair. These were the voices of those who, demanding equal rights and duties, put on a spectacle of words, music, and thought for the entire city. "I am here as provincial vice president," explained Milena D'Imperio, "alongside those fighting for a policy of equality and non-discrimination." Because, as Franco Bomprezzi, a wheelchair-bound journalist, reminded us: "A disability is not an illness, but a way of living with others: when there are barriers and you can't move, when others don't realize you exist. Today, with class conflicts gone, discrimination based on gender, race, health, and sexual orientation determines social status, ensuring that society continues to be divided. Today, here together, each with their own mind, their problems, their diversity, we can teach a lesson to combat prejudice and fear. And work to improve mutual understanding and avoid the "misunderstandings" described by the Somali writer from Pavia HKaha Aden in her book. Fourteen associations, stalls, a dance that involved everyone, each with their own possibilities of movement. On the pavement, in Piazza della Vittoria, not on the stage: "Because to get to the top there are stairs, and we couldn't have climbed them," explained Fabio Pirastu, Uildm, urged by Carla Stracci. And then everyone down on the ground: a first step towards understanding that involuntary discrimination also exists, difficult to understand if you haven't experienced it.