WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria 2023 June: Lgbtqia+: fear of the invisible (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 There is a moment in the life of charlatans, always ready to answer depending on

how the wind goes, in which a question or statement, even a simple one, can
produce a silence, a moment of emptiness, from which they try to get out quickly.
As in the famous observation of the child, in the tale of the emperor's new suit:
the king is naked! All of this can legitimately be thought of by seeing Meloni's
frozen face and fixed gaze in the face of the recriminations of the Canadian
government president Trudeau on how he treats the Lgbtq+ population. After the
agonizing moment of emptiness, the weak answers came: it was fake news, they
apply the laws, moreover they had done something else ... The amazement on
Meloni's face concerns first of all the context of the meeting of the seven most
industrialized countries in Hiroshima: but how dare he, he seems to think, ask me
this trivial question in public when we are deciding the fate of the world? And
also: what does he care about four fags? It is clear that the president of the
Italian government, gender problems aside, has not really understood how the
production of negative images works, yet she and her allies seem experts in
building them on the shoulders of the weakest.

However, to be honest, we also need to ask ourselves what prompted Trudeau to
make that statement which, it is presumed, implies a well-articulated knowledge
of the repression of sexual diversity in Italy. Apart from his sexual
preferences, which don't seem all that transgressive to me, the hypotheses can be
various: from the presence of strong Lgbtq+ movements in Canada, hence the
pressure to intervene, to an attack for defense purposes: Meloni and his
companions associate often homosexuality with surrogate pregnancy and Canada is
one of the western countries where this is allowed. He certainly seems to be more
sensitive than our president, and there is no doubt that in Canada homosexuals
and company are better off than in Italy; but above all very far from the
situation in Uganda, where a law has just been approved which increases the
penalties for those who publicly "promote" homosexuality, also providing for the
death penalty in some cases of recidivism, so much so that Biden himself issued a
conviction by insinuating the possibility of sanctions. I don't know if Meloni
agrees with her North American friend or if she feels identified and even envious
of the actions of her Ugandan colleague!

To the astonished public of this little Italy of ours, especially the voters who
have again preferred Meloni and the whole right, it must make a certain sense to
discover that the US president, their ally against the forces of evil that have
come from the East, defends these perverts, moreover African blacks, like
migrants arriving from the Mediterranean: could it be that we are dealing with an
African lgbtq+ crusade that continues to arrive on our beaches and we knew
nothing about it? And then the psycho-ideological short-circuit: the fascists de
noaltri, historically homophobic, team up with Biden who condemns homophobia, to
wage war against the homophobic Putin... However, the thing that these Italiots
discover and perhaps disturbs them the most , is to discover that there are
"faggots" everywhere, from Africa to China, passing through Australia and Russia
itself. Will it be an epidemic, like covid, that spreads invisible in our own
homes? Maybe they'd end up accepting vaccines too if they invent some that help,
since sexual reorientation clinics don't seem to work too much. And who would
like to explain to Salvini that the Renaissance pillars on which the greatness of
Italian culture is based and with which he compared himself for his "titanic"
work on the Strait of Messina (still to be done), were suspicious of behaviors
that were not exactly sexual "normal"? Leonardo, tried for sodomy and who
apparently liked kids; and Michelangelo, who used to make his sinewy models! (But
why doesn't he consult Treccani, like his colleague Lollo, before speaking!).

The question returns here: what are these people afraid of? How is it possible
that a small minority, as they believe it is, can give so much annoyance and
arouse so many reactions. It seems that a ghost is haunting the peninsula and
overflowing it, to the east and to the west, see VOX in Spain. As they say, the
natural, traditional and Christian family must be defended, even if families do
not exist in nature and even the pope is beginning to have doubts about him.
However, demonstrating with facts the opposite of what others believe is not
easy, because it seems that their identity (and also the suffering of their
daughters and sons) is at stake on these facts.

In any case, I think there is something else behind this deranged reaction in
defense of traditional families. I sense a widespread fear that their own
virility will be questioned or, even worse for these people, the ever-increasing
visibility of the naturalness of difference proposes to the new generations
different models of masculinity (other analyzes would be worthwhile for female
difference), questioning the very center of their generational existence (see the
value of sons...). And this is evidently true, since, for the most varied reasons
that should be studied closely, the different sexualities, especially males, have
acquired more and more social strength and, in part finally cleared by customs in
the West, are using it to defend their existence, but also to show the
possibility of other identities outside the traditional sexual canons to boys and
girls who grew up in homophobic families or, in any case, who would prefer not to
have a "deviant" son or daughter. It is true that with the internet these boys
and girls already quickly learn that they are not alone and that there are
millions like them, but this does not help to curb bullies at school or get out
of the closet if you live in a small mountain village or in the violent suburb
 From Rome. And it is on the school that we need to press and intervene, even
with actions that are not necessarily authorized; developing strategies that
allow the socialization of stories and movements among the youngest, as well as
favoring the organization of local self-defense groups. In short, seriously
engaging in gender politics in favor of difference.

Emmanuel Amodio

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