A river of people, including many young and very young people, poured
onto the seafront of Marina di Ragusa on Saturday 29 June for RagusaPride 2024. An explosion of rainbows, banners and posters, music, flags.
On the float that opened the parade, next to that of Arcigay and the one
with the colors of trans* people, the Palestinian flag waved throughout
the procession. At the bottom of the float, among the balloons, stood a
large red poppy. This snapshot would be enough to convey the overall
meaning of the third edition of the Ragusa Pride: a day of multitude,
community, passionate, joyful and, profoundly, political.
"This is the flower", the slogan chosen by Arcigay Ragusa, which this
year has entirely taken charge of the organization of the event,
unequivocally summarizes the spirit that informed the event:
anti-fascism reread and renewed in a queer and intersectional. A clearly
legible positioning in the choice of testimonial Lilith Primavera, a
queer artist and activist who has always been involved in battles for
the rights and recognition of LGBTQIA+ people, and widely affirmed in
the political document, which marked a turning point compared to the two
missing past editions of a platform: the desire to re-politicize Pride
to restore the original sense of revolt of the homosexual and trans*
community of Manhattan against repression and harassment by the police.
In the manifesto, written by several hands along the path of collective
construction of the event started by Arcigay in February, the threads
that connect Pride 2024 to other experiences of resistance and struggle
are reconnected: the partisan resistance, the "Stonewall Riots" of June
28, 1969, the struggle of the Palestinian people, it is no coincidence
that "No Pride in Genocide" was one of the most present slogans on the
posters during the demonstration. A political legacy that brings the
right to today's battles for a free and democratic, just and inclusive
society, for the recognition of subjectivities that do not conform to
the patriarchal norm embodied by the hetero-cisgender, white and
able-bodied male, for the freedom of self-determination and the civil
and social rights of all, for the immediate ceasefire in Gaza. In the
awareness that the shift towards the extreme, nationalist and
reactionary right which we are witnessing, disconcerted, in Italy and
Europe heralds dark times, in which marginalized, gendered, racialised,
discriminated and oppressed subjectivities will see spaces torn away day
by day of liveability and political usability. It is already happening
in our country with the attacks on same-sex families and trans* people,
with the Catholic-fascist crusade against the right to abortion and the
rhetoric of the birth crisis, as well as with the demolition of the
health and school systems, with the impoverishment and feminization of
work and, lastly, with the law on differentiated autonomy, which will
further penalize us, the peripheral people of the South.
However, it has always been from the minority subjectivities that
inhabit the peripheries and margins, understood as places of
organization of resistance, that the elaboration of the criticism of the
"white supremacist capitalist patriarchy", to use the formula dear to
bell hooks, among the black feminist thinkers who have refined and
developed the theoretical tool of intersectionality. The mobilization
and the desire to take back the road and reoccupy the spaces of politics
from below start from the same subjectivities and the same margins. In
this sense, the circumstance that today it is precisely the Pride and
transfeminist marches that bring hundreds of thousands of people back to
the streets, opening an intergenerational dialogue and confirming
themselves as intersectional political laboratories, while traditional
organizations fail to achieve their objective, could offer an
opportunity for reflection. and they consume their own crisis of
representation.
Among the concrete demands of the Ragusa Pride political document, the
request to public administrations, at various levels, to adopt protocols
for alias careers, to establish municipal registers for the choice of
name and gender of election, to support the rights of same-parent
families disobeying the ministerial circular which prohibits the
transcription of birth certificates registered abroad.
The reading of the document in Piazza Malta, where the procession
stopped, was a moment of great emotion and participation, with the
slogan "this is the flower" marking the different parts. At the end of
the reading, "Bella ciao" filled the square from the installation on the
wagon and from the voices of the demonstrators.
Over twenty entities from the provincial territory took part in Ragusa
Pride 2024, including associations, unions, parties and networks of
associations, such as the 25 November Network, created last December
following the provincial demonstration for the International Day for the
Elimination of Violence type. For this edition too, in continuity with
the previous ones, there was no lack of support from various local
administrations who sponsored the event.
This year, however, the conclusion of the parade was dedicated to the
speeches of the associations from the stage in Piazza Torre. The choice
not to give space to institutional interventions was explained by the
president of Arcigay Andrea Ragusa, who in his introductory speech
stated that this Pride wanted to give a voice to those who have none, to
those who work in silence and away from the spotlight to defend and
affirm the rights of marginalized people in everyday life. Among the
people who spoke was also Giovanni Gulino, who recalled how people with
disabilities also have the right to affectivity and sexuality, raising a
very topical issue and in line with the contents of Ragusa Pride, which
has given accessibility a particular care also through LIS interpreting
for deaf people and the access ramp to the stage.
Ragusa Pride 2024 ended late at night with live music and DJ sets: a
Piazza Torre packed with people who showed the desire to have fun by
creating community bonds. "If I can't dance, then it's not my
revolution," wrote the anarchist feminist Emma Goldman in Living My
Life, reminding us that joy and activism, politics and passion, either
go together or they don't.
Luciana Licitra - Arch gay Ragusa
https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
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