Recipes for Love. Valentine's Day Cooking with Gay and Lesbian Families is the title of the e-book, published by Arcigay and available for free on the website www.ricetterainbow.it, which collects the seduction in the kitchen of gay and lesbian families who are demanding rights and who will celebrate this Valentine's Day 2013.
Arcigay has collected the love recipe book, with shots of Rossana Pellacini and with graphics by Daniele Paoletti and Alessandro Pascoli
of the digital visual communication studio Golden Section, through the stories and favourite dishes of couples made up of two women or two men.
The text aims to be an intimate and emotional journey into the daily emotional life of homosexual families and between a rice cake with carrot crudités, a tasty plate of lasagna or a carrot and ginger flan this e-book recounts the dreams and disappointments of couples who experience first-hand the drama of exclusion in rights. .
Gabriella and Sabrina, who recently had a baby, say: "Rights should be available to all people, not based on individual preferences." Emiliano and Davide add, "We believe the concept of family cannot be based solely on religious belief but should be a secular concept." Giampaolo and Francesco married abroad: "We got married in Ottawa, Canada, about a year and a half ago, and we are proud of our choice, even though Italy considers a marriage certificate issued by a foreign sovereign country to be the same as a tear of toilet paper. Italy must (we appreciate your lack of use of the conditional!) recognize marriage regardless of gender.
Fifteen couples passionately participated in this Arcigay project, created to showcase the flavors and moods of this country and to showcase these families' ability to resist, to rebuild their original and authentic dimension, to positively reorganize their lives despite the humiliation of living as second-class citizens.
The site, www.ricetterainbow.it, conceived by Daniele Sorrentino, will give continuity to the Arcigay project by involving homosexual and lesbian families and inviting them to send their photos and their recipe for love so that denied affections and rights can take on the visibility they deserve.
Maura Chiulli, head of culture at Arcigay, explains: “In the heated days of the election campaign, when we are wondering who will be able to chart and realize a European destiny for our country, Arcigay chooses the bittersweet flavor of our life stories to affirm, once again, the shameful distance that our country marks daily with respect to Europe.”.
Flavio Romani, president of Arcigay He adds: "Thanks go to everyone who created this unusual cookbook. We will share it with our politicians, who cannot continue to hide behind vague and timid programs.
Gay and lesbian couples, along with all others, are the asset and future of Italy. We want these and thousands of other couples to be able to marry in Italy and not be forced into shameful migration. And that's precisely why we're submitting our campaign to the candidates for the next parliament. Time's up, which has marriage as its first question.
Happy Saint Valentine's".
