(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 30 - "The paradox today is that the gay mafia is the problem. Not being homosexual, but the mafia of homosexuals, of lesbians".
The shocking phrases are pronounced by Luca Barbareschi during the presentation of a cultural event in Sutri, the town in the province of Viterbo led by the mayor Vittorio Sgarbi, also present during the invective of the actor complete with a tricolor sash.
The words of the ex-deputy are making the rounds of the web, raising epolemic criticisms.
"Those of Barbareschi are unacceptable words", thunders Lazio Pride recalling that "in 2018 the Pride of Ostia, organized by Lazio Pride, was dedicated to the victims of the mafias, in twinning with the Pride of Naples".
"The LGBT community is a victim of organized crime - reads a note -,
who exploits and oppresses the conditions of discomfort he declares is a victim of homophobia.
Barbareschi apologize.
Lazio Pride is deployed in the fight against the mafias and we will continue to do so on June 25 and July 9 at the Lazio Pride in AlbanoLaziale and Viterbo "." We are deeply disappointed by the words of Barbareschi pronounced in Sutri - said Virginia Migliore, president of Peter Boom Arcigay Viterbo and originally from Palermo-.
Mafias and LGBT communities are in antithesis.
On 9 July we will be in the square at Viterbo Lazio Pride also against the mafias, as Lazio Pride has been doing for years ". (ANSA).