Milan, June 23 – Everything is almost ready for Milan's Gay Pride. For a few days now, rows of rainbow flags have appeared along Corso Buenos Aires, the starting point of the Lombardy capital's next Christopher Street Day Pride, scheduled for Saturday, June 25. These flags were installed in collaboration with the local merchants' association. "The six-color rainbow flag," explain event spokespeople Stefania Cista, Marco Mori, and Antonia Monopoli, "represents the colors of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community worldwide. Seeing it flying during Pride Week and receiving its patronage (from the City of Milan) represent an important starting point: LGBT people can live in a city that wants to begin considering them an integral and visible part of the city." Final preparations for the demonstration, which will begin in Piazza Lima at 4:30 PM, are rapidly continuing.
“"Led by a band of 23," the spokespeople explained, "we will begin our march with the youth born in 1990, who will wear a stop sign that reads 'Stop Homo-Transphobia' in reference to the excessive number of homophobic and transphobic attacks and the law currently being debated in parliament. 1990," they explained, "is the year the WHO removed homosexuality from the list of diseases, and these youth were born and raised in the years when borders and frontiers were torn down; they are citizens of the world, children of differences, European citizens. We want to begin our march with them, with a message of confidence in the future, hoping for a change in the situation in this country." Then, they renewed their invitation to the mayor: "Giuliano Pisapia will be welcome, and we hope, as suggested in our meeting with him on April 30th, that he will be present and will greet us." (source: AGI)
