looked like exotic birds in cages, on Saturday afternoon at the Gay Pride in Bucharest. The barriers delimiting one of the capital's main boulevard, the one that leads to Piazza Unirii Square of the Constitution, while all around the parade policemen in riot gear, who were certainly more of the protesters, ensure the safety of participants. Every year since 2005, in fact, since in Bucharest took place the first Gay Pride, neo-fascist groups threaten the event. In 2007 a group of activists has been beaten on the subway at the end of the parade.
Even the two counter-demonstrations, a Friday night, for marriage and against unmarried couples and the other Saturday morning, organized by the group "Noua dreapta" openly neo-fascist. Fortunately, a few participants.
The theme of this year I've been running civil unions, which in Romania appear to be a mirage. Indeed, according to a story about ten days ago several news websites published on homosexual, Parliament is to pass a law that would prohibit. Symbolically, Saturday none of the local politicians came to give support to the LGBT community.
There were, however, the British Ambassador, Swedish and Dutch (I've spoken, simple and delicious), and a French MEP and a member of English, but no Italian. Given the political climate that is haunting the peninsula, it is not surprising.
Before the Pride, the site of Accept, the association for the rights of gay men who organized the event and the festival of homosexual culture that preceded it, the atmosphere was festive but tense. In Romania, especially in smaller towns, do outing, declared their gender orientation, is a practice that few people still feel the risk. Homophobia is widespread at all levels and ages, even more than in Italy. And the local church plays a strong role in this desperate attempt to stop a river running underground, but more and more violent.
L and homosexual relationships are more common than you think. Speaking with the students discover a world you do not expect an open universe the discovery of a less conventional sexuality. But in fact, is a hidden underground river, and that is hard to come out, and many members of the gay community did not participate in Pride for fear of being recognized among the small crowd.
We were all young and govanissimi. A few, not more than a few hundred, including many foreigners and a large group of photographers and journalists, more girls than the boys.
The event, despite the path militarized, was joyous and colorful, with the same expressions of joy and euphoria that can be seen on our streets in such circumstances. Transsexuals, gays and lesbians have given birth to a party open-air dance music with loud whistles clothes balloons and flowers. A huge rainbow flag, like a snake underground, has gained ground in the short path. If we think that homosexual relations were decriminalized in 2002 alone, the Gay Pride was a success.
Parlmento arrived in front of the Palace, built by the famous Ceau Ş escu, in a square of asphalt burned by the sun, it seemed to be in a Desert of democracy, a stretch where arid i diritti stentano a sbocciare. Sembra assurdo che nell'Europa del terzo millennio ci siano luoghi in cui non siano riconosciute le unioni tra persone dello stesso sesso. Il passo che anche da noi sembra difficile afferrare, è che i diritti civili rappresentano una conquista di libertà per tutti. Fortunatamente le resistenze non potranno frenare una società che non aspetta permessi scritti per mutare le forme del suo amore.
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