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One of the things that struck me most during the Turin Pride 2009 is the participation of volunteers to the organization. I do not know if someone has counted them but surely we are all less than 100 and all those who have given at least a couple of hours of unpaid work in the three weeks preceding the event on May 16. And if I'm not wrong for most of them ours was the first Pride.

This has already happened with the Turin Pride 2006, also increased in size, and some of those who came to Pride that have continued to work with associations existing, or even setting up new ones.

This means that the Pride in Turin have fulfilled one of their main functions, taking on increasing significance for a range of gay and transsexual population much larger than that in itself sensitive to political and social issues.

The festive nature of this event has developed over the years has greatly helped this spread. The very fact that many of the new volunteers / and have come to the circles of dancing and facebook, may mean that the wall between the world of entertainment and political world, at least for LGBT people, it is a bit 'crumbling.

This news is important for many reasons, not least one linked to the construction of a sense of belonging to a community - that goes beyond their sexual partners - ch involves. If one of the places and places of entertainment to politics, but also with those of culture, there is osmosis means that increases the level of awareness and empowerment of the total population on homosexual rights, individual, couple and group.

I believe in particular that really a city as Turin, where the interplay between these worlds is experienced especially in the years between 1978 and 1982 with the experience of the club - then bar - managed by the Outside!, And the LGBT Film Festival, has much to say about this aspect of the relationship between political movement and the gay world. And perhaps it is no coincidence that in those years was celebrated the first Pride of place in Italy, in Turin ...

The feeling I had with the Pride 2009 is that the degree of awareness of social and political value of the Pride, not only one party animal-liberation, was higher than in the past. If my feeling is real - and has been confirmed by many of the members of the Coordination with whom I spoke in recent days - it is for groups to fully understand this phenomenon and enhance it.

accept that people participate in social and political activities without asking their membership to predefined templates, and even enhance them for what they can express a change of pace is essential that those who care about the social, cultural and political aspects of LGBT community (in other words, the same construction of the community) can not fail to accomplish: the community, in fact lives when it is free, and when any of those who are called to be a part fails to express himself in ways and times it considers most natural. The militant model that we embody is neither the only nor the best, nor should it be.

's so that the humus is created within which to be born (maybe they are already born) the new leader of the movement. Those who are more years on the crest of the wave should feel this responsibility: to let grow and empower new forces. What we can do (because experience counts, and how if it counts ...) is to seek the Lambda Factor that is in them, the item more difficult to define, which transforms a person to be politically and socially sensitive, leading to . We are able to see it in Lambda Factor in those who are close to our side?

Enzo Cucco
http://gayindependent.blogspot.com/


PS: Lambda is a greek letter of the alphabet, starting with a verb that means free, free, dissolve. No coincidence that the movement of the '70s has chose this point as one of its symbols: free from the chains that society has imposed on us, but above all free from our chains inner daughters of guilt, of self-concealment and self-condemnation that often.

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Torino Pride 2009 was a success

When you win you do not go on vacation. It 'a rule that I learned at school that radical, beyond the apparent contradiction, it illustrates the responsibility that lies on those who get a major achievement. And I believe that the Turin Pride 2009 is a very important success. Obviously different from that of the 2006 National Pride, but equally significant for the reality of Turin and Piedmont. We therefore propose
some thoughts, and please read in the light of our national situation: if they can be useful for this.

success by no means स्कोंतातो
The success of the Turin Pride 2009 was not obvious: zero money, very few initiatives highlight the previous week (useful for the drag effect), a new semi-organizational coordination in its composition than the Turin Pride 2006, which took less time to harmonize the different styles (in some cases even different visions) are present in it, almost zero resonance in the media, and through no fault but due to lack of coordination resonance controversy event.

What worked then?

Coordination
At one point, even with the new fire coordination that indefinable factor that, making us put aside resentments and misunderstandings, all of the effort has focused on the objective to be achieved. There was no particular miracle, but only the sense of responsibility to women, men and trans of good will who have been able to take the necessary step back when it was time to do so. Spreading the word


It worked, and for real this time, word of mouth, whether individual or through social networks. I absolutely do not believe that the few pieces appeared in newspapers (no news to just a few steps sulel TGRai and private, except the parts of the day of the event) have taken place in the 50,000 people we've seen. And on this you have to work a lot in the future.

New
There have been some small but significant changes: the proposal of a specific initiative at the university, which relies on a new perky newborn group, the appeal to ethnic communities present in the city, written in their language ; the official accession of FIOM and participation of our delegation for their onset and vice versa, the acceptance by the President of the Region, the President Council, a Councillor, the leader of the opposition and many other directors in a debate on the law against all discrimination stops at the Regional Council (please tell me the regions in which many institutional stakeholders come together on a date LGBT?) and Finally, the Mayor, who has accepted our request to display the flag of the movement from the balcony of the Palazzo they municipal.

numbers
A brief reflection on the number of events: the police have stated that they were to pull out 10,000 and as many sides. Who was he saw the actual length of the parade, and the huge amount of people on both sides of the route applauded and supported the event since its inception in Piazza Solferino to Piazza del Municipio. Do you face: the parts where you were going faster 700/800 meters of uninterrupted procession that has occupied a roadway width of at least 6 / 8 meters. And when we were still a bit - for blocking the cart of coordination - the procession went by Via Pietro Micca ang Via Bertola to Piazza Solferino continuously. 50,000, then, is a credible figure. Please compare it with the 15,000 metal workers in the morning (union sources, the police said 8,000) and 3,000 students at the event Tuesday, May 19 against the University of the G8. Maybe we should menarci, or beating someone, to have the same space in the media?

Seminare produces fruits
I believe that this is a consequence of the large investment made with the National Pride of 2006, which built, among ourselves and with the City, and the credibility of those relationships that have allowed us to organize an event of such a wide success . But I also believe that much should be the history of the movement in this city, which since its inception with the outside! in 1971 until the establishment of LGBT Services for the City, has always been able to identify concrete goals and cultivate them. A story that renews itself even if it is profoundly true, as it is true that the 2006 Pride in our region are born with 8 new groups, including 5 in the city and 3 in the provinces. The only

secular mass demonstration in Italy
And I also believe that the Pride have become the place where all those who care about the rights and have a dislike of fundamentalism, especially the Catholic hierarchy, can express themselves. The Pride are now in Italy, the only secular mass demonstrations, is not it?

Torino, therefore, is experiencing a positive cycle with regard to the relationship between the LGBT community, the institutions and the whole city. Like all cycles has increased for many reasons, including the history of political movement and a contingency particular are among the main objective. But like all cycles may decline, due to the absence of the factors that determined it, and also consistent with a part of city and regional community that we built.

why we can not go on vacation. That is why we must seize the moment as long as is positive, taking home the highest number of long-term goals. Those goals that, if you air it would be more difficult to remove.

Ah, I forgot, at the Turin Pride 2009 have contributed, I think, in a decisive way to the large number of new volunteers who responded to our appeals. But on this I will say something more in the next piece.

Enzo Cucco
http://gayindependent.blogspot.com/

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The mischievous

When yesterday I read the release regarding the meeting between the President and four Fini Italian gay organizations, I felt like writing a note on "malice," or "I rosicare", as you prefer, thinking of the handful of members of the LGBT movement that some stomach ache all over 'goal reached by Mancuso media have certainly had. Then the articles in the newspapers this morning have reached this desire and forced me to think, faithful to the subtitle of my blog, on the substance of what has happened.

My impression is that at present the only objective achieved by the two protagonists is that it sparigliato (little by little, the truth is ....) rigid attachment that readers of newspapers in the head, and both also have strong contenders in the past helped to create: a compact right against gays and gay right-wing enemies compact.

But there are two other objectives, less obvious but equally significant stakeholders, which must be pointed out: Fini has made a dispettuccio the Church and the vast majority of his political party, because behind the formality and rigidity of the meeting limits imposed on the topics to be addressed, it is clear that open on the front means unmark on gay rights by a substantial majority vulgar, or absent. Fini is a candidate to be leader of a wing liberal of the center? This is great news, we'll see what effects it will have on the concrete proposals that will pass or not pass, by Parliament.

Mancuso, presented himself to the encounter with what now seems his court credited as fixing some dispettuccio has scored himself. How to define otherwise attended a meeting where only four Italian organizations in the aftermath of a national press conference to present a campaign against homophobia which have joined the dozens of acronyms, certainly no less significant than those housed in the Palazzo Montecitorio? The theme of the meeting with Fini and the press conference before the fight was not homophobia and lobbying for support to the bill-Tanning-Beltrandi Bernardini and others lying in the Commission? How can we not define dispettuccio (this time against oneself) to accept without batting an eyelid to speak with President Fini only certain topics and not others? How can we not define dispettuccio to invent the ridiculous argument that certain fundamental rights, the Association is an organization of the party to justify his absence from the delegation?

Net, then, of dispettucci that this episode has brought to light, remain on the field the two challenges, both of some importance: Fini will do it to be a less homophobic right center bringing home some concrete results and not only pats on the back? Mancuso will do it to scrape off all'ArciGay definitely from the left sideline the past two decades, maybe even working on those traits "mischievous" in its leadership (not his Mancuso organization that represents)?

No one will take offense if I say that certainly the most significant challenge to the homosexual and transsexual people in this country is Quelala Fini. On

Mancuso add another thought: I still believe the message Out! launched in 1974 by choosing to federate the PR and asking all those who did not share this choice to enter the game because just changing from the inside (Their culture, their political choices) in our country there would be a true equality for gay people and transsexuals. The movements are independent of political parties in Italy have always had very short life and breath. The model in Italy goes to big corporate and collateral is, just look at the history of trade unions and youth movements to understand. Mancuso says at every turn that the time the collateral is over: we are entering one of corporatism?

Enzo Cucco

PS for friends GayLib associations, aged, Rainbow Families: every time I hear you speak in public highlighted the need for unity of the movement. Why no recollection of these beautiful sentences even when the ArciGay invites you to formal meetings with the President of the Chamber?