[:it]Ragusa Pride 2025 arrives in Marina di Ragusa on Sunday, June 29th, and it's going to be a storm!
Ragusa Pride 2025 is just over two weeks away, and it's already shaping up to be a storm. Or rather, a tempest, as the slogan chosen for this fourth edition by the organizing committee states: We are children of the storm.
A colorful, noisy, and multifaceted storm, as is typical of Pride, but with a strong message that is clearly expressed in the event's political document.
The view is therefore broad and goes beyond the boundaries of identity, one intersectional gaze which recognizes the intertwining of different forms of oppression: racism, sexism, ableism, geographical and social marginalization, labor exploitation.
A look that embraces a international dimension and focuses in particular on the genocide of the Palestinian people and on the horrors of war, in the face of which one cannot remain silent.
“NThere is no justice in Pride if there is no justice in Gaza, There is no peace and justice for anyone as long as a people is deprived of the right to life, dignity and freedom.”", concludes the political document. And there is no doubt that Pride on June 29 will be a celebration, but above all it will be a Pride of protest.
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WE ARE CHILDREN OF THE STORM
Ragusa Pride 2025 Political Document
There is a time of rainbows, and there is a time of storms.
The time of celebration, and the time of struggle.
Pride 2025 can't just be a party.
As the world around us has begun to deny us, censor us and target us again, our Pride must also be a time of struggle.
Pride serves to make us visible, but it is no longer enough to protect us when the conquests of the past are under attack, and the future calls us to resist.
Today, all of us, together, choose to become the storm.
In Hungary, the government banned Pride, denying our political bodies, our disobedient histories.
In the United States Trump has banned the very words we need to name and defend ourselves.
Everywhere, the advance of the extreme right and fascists is endangering our existence.
Also in Italy, the Meloni government has taken a treacherous and violent path: it censors education on differences in schools, attacks gender affirmation programs, and erases the daughters and sons of same-sex families from public documents.
It exercises institutional violence against our community and legitimizes homophobic, lesbian, and transphobic violence against LGBTQIA+ people.
They are afraid.
Not of "gender theory"—which doesn't exist. But of critical thinking, of freedom, of the possibility of a plural and complex world.
A world they cannot control, because it refuses blind obedience to patriarchy, to the heteronormative family, to imposed binarism.
And so today, from Ragusa, from this corner of the South that he no longer accepts being a victim, but claims the right to be a conscious and resistant margin, let's say ENOUGH!
Let's say that pride is not a parade: is a declaration of existence.
AND memory of the struggles of those who came before.
AND responsibility towards those who come after.
This is also why we've made a clear choice this year: to have no spokespeople. Because each of us is already a spokesperson with our own lives, and because Pride cannot and must not be a commercial event, but rather an event created by the people, for the people.
We are children of the storm because we grew up in a country that told us we were wrong.
But we have learned to navigate even in bad weather and building shelters when there weren't any.
And they won't stop us.
Not the bans.
Not censorship.
Not attempts to rewrite reality to please a violent order.
Our demands are clear:
- We want sexual and emotional education in schools, accessible, scientific and secular.
- We want guaranteed gender affirmation paths and safe in every region.
- We want the equal marriage and the full recognition of same-sex families.
- We want a law against homolesbobitransphobia.
- We want that no one should have to choose between being themselves and being second-class citizens.
We want an Italy and a world in which all identities are recognized,
but we don't want to make identity a fence or a privileged area.
Our Pride is intersectional.
Because there is no queer liberation without a fight against every other form of oppression.
We recognize that discrimination is intertwined:
Homolesbobitransphobia intersects with racism, sexism, ableism, poverty, geographic and social marginalization, labor exploitation, and poor work.
Being queer in the South, being queer and a migrant, being queer and disabled, being queer and precarious, means experiencing more open fronts, more stigmas, more risks.
There are no true rights if they are not rights for all.
This is what we fight for Together to racialized people, to people with disabilities, to exploited workers, to those who are crushed every day by the privilege of a few.
THE'’intersectionality it is the political heart of our Pride.
Because freedom is either collective or it isn't there.
THE'’intersectionality it is awareness of the need for solidarity among all the oppressed of the world, overcoming nationalisms, borders, cultural rigidities and ethnocentrisms.
And we want to say, forcefully and angrily, that there is no justice in Pride if there is no justice in Gaza, as in all war zones, that peace is only possible through global disarmament and demilitarization.
As we march with our colors, across the Mediterranean bombs rain down on starving children, women and men.
We cannot remain silent in the face of genocide.
There is no peace and justice for anyone,
as long as a people is deprived of the right to life, dignity, and freedom.
Being queer also means saying that no liberation is true if it is not the liberation of all.
Being queer also means rejecting the patriarchal machismo of a militaristic and nationalist culture.
This is our time.
Not just the rain.
Even the thunder one.
No longer and not yet that of the rainbow, but that of lightning and the storm.
AND anger that becomes hope,
And fury that turns into fight,
And love that doesn't ask permission.[:]
