Pride in Rome, the slogan is “QueeResistence”

The Rome Pride 2023 he left at three in the afternoon on Saturday 10 June, with a rainbow crowd which started from Republic squarein the direction of the Imperial Forums.

Rainbow flags, 35 floats, ironic slogans such as «Fewer melons, more watermelons»the Rome Pride 2023 expects to exceed 20,000 visitors. Left standing by the Lazio Region, which revoked the sponsorship of the event, the event in favor of the LGBTQIA+ community has for godmothers the singers Paola and Chiara.

Among the politicians present at Rome Pride 2023 there are, among others, Emma Bonino, the former president of the Lazio Region and PD deputy Nicola Zingaretti, the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri and PD secretary Elly Schlein. Zingaretti said of him on his participation in the procession: «It is important to be here because the right to be yourself is a battle that everyone should be fighting, the safeguarding of the defense of the difference of opinions, ideas and sexual orientation. In this square there are those who defend the rights of all and those who don’t come because of a technicality are wrong».

«It’s not about being left or right: today’s oceanic square in Rome demonstrates that Italy is hostage to a reactionary, illiberal and anti-European right, which no longer represents the real country in terms of civil rights and liberties”, he declares Rosario Coco, president of Gaynet, guest on the stage of the Pride Croisette village alongside the mayor Gualtieri and other spokesmen of the movement.

The Venetian activist Alessandro Zanwho wrote on his Twitter profile on 6 June «After granting it, today the Lazio Region withdraws its patronage from @Roma_Pride. A schizophrenia of hatred and discrimination that the right wants to spread using the institutions», he took to the streets. And to the newspaper The poster reiterated the meaning of this year’s Roma Pride: «A meaning of collective resistance. We are not just claiming rights. We are resisting against a government that wants to discriminate against us. It is a resistance in the name of the Italian Constitution”.

Just before the departure of the procession Mario Colamarino, spokesman for Roma Pride e president of Mario MieliIt reaffirmed: “What happened with advocacy is yet another proof of how homophobic and scoundrel this right is. It’s a shame. And all this on the skin of the citizens of Lazio and of our community”.

Also present at the meeting with the mayor of Rome Rosario Coco, jurist, entrepreneur and activist, spokesperson for Roma Pride“From today the resistance of our community to this right, to this government and to Meloni,” he commented.

Meanwhile, around 4 pm, a fact that had never happened during the previous Prides was reported: the policemen blocked the Muccassassina’s wagon, with the godmothers on board as well Paula and Clare, at the beginning of the procession at Porta Maggiore. The same happened with the floats of the Canadian and United Kingdom embassies. After the checks, they were restarted, but the crowd didn’t fail to boo the police force for treatment.