Inclusive tourism
Booking.com have begun an initiative aimed at raising awareness in hotels and other hospitality facilities about welcoming practices for LGBTIA+ customers, further helping guests to consciously choose the right place for themselves.
‘I was Prof Salvatore, today I am Prof Simona’
“I went from being a male professor to a female one, and it was completely natural, even for my pupils”.
Finland passes gender self-determination law
Finland has taken an important step towards protecting the rights of trans people and improving their lives and their right to self-determination
Statistics of hate
It’s clear there’s a need for a rethink. The relationship between media, socials and users needs to be readdressed and improved in order to highlight, and subsequently call out the most radical forms of hatred.
Rhetoric all too often starts in word form and then translates to physical reality – abuse and femicide statistics support this tragic theory in spades.
Pope Francis against proponents of criminalising homosexuality
Pope Francis returns to the subject of homosexuality in an interview given in the aftermath of Ratzinger’s death, in which he lashes out at Catholic Bishops who advocate the criminalisation of homosexuality.
Declaring such laws ‘unjust’, the Pontiff stressed that the Catholic Church can, and must work to repeal them. “It must do this,” the Jesuit stressed.
Holland says stop to homotransphobia.
In the Netherlands the parliament voted recently on an amendment to Article 1 of the Constitution, inserting a ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation and disability.
In Milan, the queue at the polling station(s) becomes one line for all
the Municipal Administration of Milan has decided to advise polling station staff to “not separate voters into two rows, always keep the registers close together and check the identity of people only when it is their turn”, thus enabling a non-discriminatory experience that is more respectful of each person’s gender identity and promotes inclusivity.
Gender self-determination and the depathologisation of transsexuality
The law, which awaits the Senate’s approval, will, amongst other things, allow individuals aged 16 or over (minimum age 14 with parental consent) to proceed with gender rectification in the absence of, until now, necessary judicial authorisation, and without it being conditional on prior medical or psychological examinations that ascertain the presence, in the applicant, of a perception of gender that is different from their birth sex.
From today LGBTQIA+ topics banned for under-11s: the case of a Milanese school
a well-known bilingual private school in Milan “grants” the possibility of dealing with LGBTQIA+ issues ONLY optional to students over the age of 11.
When freedom of being oneself was/is punished as a crime of indecency
The recent (and sparingly discussed) decision of Meloni’s government, which has declared its intention to reinstate the prison sentence for the crime of Obscene Acts in a Public Place, currently sanctioned with an administrative fine ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 euro, and to impose harsher penalties, is cause for reflection and concern. Concern that one’s freedom of expression runs the risk of arrest and imprisonment.
