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AUGUST 2020 ARCIGAY CATANIA
A culturally stimulating August characterized this month at Arcigay Catania.
On August 11th, the Stonewall 50+1 event will feature two roundtable discussions with our councilors Emanuele Liotta and Lele Russo.
The first, coordinated by Dario Accolla, in which Emanuele emphasized the importance of the approval of the Zan law. The second, attended by Lele Russo, focused on the importance of trans identity, highlighting the entire process transsexual people in Italy must undergo during their journey, and how crucial it is for the transgender community to support a law against homophobia, especially for trans people's access to the workforce.
With the participation during the debates of Valerio C. Battaglia, president of the Mario Mieli club, Daniele Russo as representative of the campaign "Give voice to respect!", Lucia Scala, president of Arcigay Siracusa, Alessandro B. Fontana, president of Stonewall Siracusa, and of Agedo Siracusa.
On August 29th, at the CGIL courtyard, Vice President Vera Navarria and Dario Accolla will introduce and interview writer and journalist Simone Alliva for the launch of his book "Caccia all'omo" (Hunting for the Man).
A cross-section of Italian culture and popular thinking about homophobia: Who are homophobes? Where do they live? Why does homophobia exist?
In every person there is a voice to tell and it is there that the "meaning of things" nests.
The differences between North and South, paradoxes such as homosexual activists in far-right parties notoriously hostile to same-sex unions and homosexuality, are analyzed without a critical eye. People who forget about rights because they don't prioritize them.
Gay men fleeing their villages to network and show solidarity in larger cities. The absolute stigma of the transgender world.
The medieval advent of "reparative psychology." The belief that absurd theories halfway between faith and "science" can "cure" a condition that isn't actually a disease. The hostility of many parents, regardless of cultural or economic background, a subtle, well-concealed homophobia. As well as the complete absence of female homosexuality from the public eye in this country.
All this is the culmination of behind-the-scenes work aimed at schools.
And we will continue to work.
A hug
Andrea Annaro
Arcigay Catania Culture[:]