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Dall'Orto Paola, founder dell'Agedo: the government frustrates its campaign against homophobia
Valter Delle Donne
"Poor woman, poor woman ". Dall'Orto Paola, founder of parents, relatives and friends of homosexuals (www.agedo.org) think I've heard all of Silvio Berlusconi after the joke about gays. Had not yet read the defense of the premier by Daniela Santanche spread in a press release and appeared in newspapers yesterday. "The premier said that - said Undersecretary of the implementation of the program - that all the mothers of Italy would like to hear from their children. What's more, he said that all Italians think. Much better to be straight, but need to discuss it? ".
Mrs. Dall'Orto, 75, who also wrote several children's book (probe editor) written with his son John, do you repeat the statement of the Secretary twice before expressing an opinion. "I think the level of response to Berlusconi, in some ways even worse, I am shocked."
Dall'Orto Lady, what's the humiliation and downfall in the phrase of Secretary Santanchè?
The problem is this. This Daniela Santanche, as well as that of Berlusconi, is a phrase from a tavern, but they are spoken by government representatives. However, if some aspect of the Prime Minister I joke, because they are in his repertoire to comedy, the phrase of Santanchè shocked me even more because to pronounce it is a woman, a mother.
All the mothers were anxious to have gay children?
All the mothers dream of children who may have a good life. Period. For the rest, the one that says to me Santanchè even coming to be against the constitution because it implicitly denies the equal rights and equal dignity of persons.
Beyond the jokes, However, it must be said that the government carried out an extensive information campaign to combat homophobia.
Minister for Equal Opportunities had so far done a good job, but these jokes, as she calls them, are likely to frustrate all the commercials promoted by Mara Carfagna. Because when it comes to so-called "belly" of the Italians, tickling the most macho, it sends a negative message with unpredictable effects. You can not imagine how much damage among children can make a sentence like that. The principle is: do you see? He also said Berlusconi. We turn the schools and prejudices are hard to eradicate. Especially in regions and among population groups with less cultural tools.
There is something at the institutional level that could be done to correct this gaffe?
confident in the sensitivity of the Speaker of the House, Gianfranco Fini, who would do well to take some extraordinary action. I think a channel for the law against homophobia. But it would be even better this time to intervene directly if the president Giorgio Napolitano.
She founded the Agedo to combat prejudices about homosexuality and help parents to manage the relationship with a gay son or lesbian daughter. How did you react when her son told her that he was homosexual?
was a shock. But I talk more than thirty years ago. At that time there was a lot of ignorance, we lived in terror of homosexuality. Today the reality is different, but what if there's such phrases, you return back again. Did you know that after the sentence of the Prime Minister, we received emails of insults, which give well right?
I hope you have been a few ...
Yes, fortunately. We were literally swamped with messages of solidarity, especially from abroad. Not understand that a prime minister can say certain phrases. I called the representative of a similar German Association to express his amazement. I was moved because I said you Italians are not like Berlusconi, may disqualify you as well?
And you like to answer?
that are not so convinced that the joke of the Prime Minister is so far from the common thought of my countrymen. She does not take into account the most culturally equipped the population, but what is the belly. I do not know whether a sentence like that will make him lose votes. I hope so, but I would not swear.
's expertise Italians are homophobic? Yet not a day that does not make any public figure outing. The last time was in the order of the singer Tiziano Ferro.
For a writer, a journalist or an artist's sexual orientation is irrelevant. Such people can afford it, but she thinks especially the common people. Go into the factory and see what happens. Try to find a worker who can speak openly to colleagues: I'm gay. Believe me, there is still a long way to go.
04/11/2010
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