Close to the Pride in Bologna, the demonstration for LGBT + rights is discussing the decision of the organizers, the Rivolta Pride network, to exclude Polis Aperta, the association that brings together homosexuals who work in the police and in the armed forces, from participation.
To denounce the situation, as reported by the Resto del Carlino, was the Polis Aperta association itself.
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We were asked - they write - not to present ourselves with the association's logos and banner, but to participate anonymously
, as if we had to hide who we are.
Since its inception, the association has been committed to the recognition of civil rights, from the Cirinnà law to the Zan law, to the recognition of aliases for people in transition and homogenitoriality.
Because we are aware that only by protecting the multiple individual identities of society can we guarantee the defense of that democracy that we have decided to represent by wearing a uniform.
Excluding practices do not belong to us, just as mockery, discrimination, prejudice that exudes from certain tones do not belong to us.
This hatred does not belong to us ".
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Riot Pride responded by recalling how the experience harks back to the riot in response to the Stonewall crackdown.
"We recognize - they reply - that homolesbobitransaphobia is present in all workplaces, even within the police and law enforcement agencies. Indeed, it is often precisely in these sectors that discrimination finds space, encouraged by an environment, that of the barracks, steeped in machismo and machismo. For this reason, we would like to clarify that ours is not a stance against Polis Aperta, but an open criticism of the police as an institution, and as a place for the reproduction of sexist violence , homolesbobitransphobic, enabler and racist ".
