“"Anyone who wants to sell off our lives for electoral calculations should look us in the eye."”
Bologna, February 22, 2016 – “According to what the newspapers are reporting this morning, it would seem that rather than being at a crossroads, the civil unions bill is held hostage by an inexorable fate.” Gabriele Piazzoni, national secretary of Arcigay, angrily commented on the news of a possible agreement with NCD on removing stepchild adoption from the Cirinnà bill. It's like writing child protection laws with the ogre. The conditions for moving forward with the law's approval with the current text are in place if the Democratic Party, the Five Star Movement, and the Left Party sit around a table and, amendment by amendment, commit to not betraying the expectations of millions of people by clearing up ambiguities and putting their faces on the line, without resorting to freedom of conscience and various political games that obscure who supports the law and who doesn't. For once, let the supreme interest of citizens and the country prevail in emerging from the Middle Ages of rights. This is why it's important for LGBT people and all those who hold this battle dear to them to mobilize. Arcigay will be demonstrating on Wednesday, February 24, together with Arcilesbica, Famiglie Arcobaleno, Agedo, and Circolo Mario Mieli, starting at 4 p.m. in Piazza delle Cinque Lune, near the Senate, where voting is scheduled to resume. The time has come to defend our lives and our rights, denied for too many decades: whoever that... “The day he enters the chamber thinking of selling off our stories to an electoral calculation, he will first have to have the courage to look us in the eye,” concludes Piazzoni.