Thursday, April 29, 2010

Kates Playground And Men

ROME. INSULT AND SLAP ON THE BUS 'you're gay, do suck "

The 4 thugs fled. "Passengers indifferent"
Tuesday, April 27, 2010, Il Corriere della Sera - Rome

The black leather strap or Arcigay. Very little is needed to unleash the bad guy on Saturday night. At this point, then, does not need to mingle with the crowd of rub night: just the deck of a bus.
left a flag Arcigay. Matt, the boy attacked on Saturday night, a volunteer in the association, had a bag with the same symbol. That was enough to trigger the attack. The complaint is
Arcigay. At two in the morning on Saturday night, four young men, aged between 20 and 25 years (including one girl), on board of 'N8', which follows the Trastevere nightlife, fired a volley of insults, first on a non-EU "A nigga that you came fasci? A steal our jobs? ", Then when that fell at the first stop against a voluntary association, Matthias C. "Piglian ...», 'queer', 'Zozzo", "disgusting." The boy, a student aged 22 today will present his complaint to the Prosecutor's Office, said: sit and read a book. At one point they started to tell me that I sucked because I'm gay. " A crescendo of insults, intimidation and then slaps.
After the fire at Qube, the 'attack on the Gay Street el' stabbing of a boy out of the Gay Village, this is the bus of the 'homophobia'. They, may cross the center, in general indifference. So Matthew tells it: "Nobody has done nothing. While those insulted I looked around without encountering any support. " The attack was not "flash" they say Arcigay: "All I lasted at least five minutes,"
Waiting to present (today) a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office, Arcigay yesterday turned to the institutions. In asking the new president of the Lazio Region, Renata Polverini, to "resume as soon as the campaigns of antiomofobia Gay Help Line (800 713 713, note)." And, the City of Rome, "to increase the availability of the next campaign."
About Gay Help Line "55% of calls we receive said Fabrizio Marrazzo, president of Arcigay is children under 26 years with complaints of discrimination and harassment at home, at school and at work."
Solidarity bipartisan Matthew C. "It a very serious incident, "said Renata Polverini, that will not fail 'efforts against discrimination." "Cowardly aggression" for the mayor Gianni Alemanno. Concern for the episode "characterized by malice and cowardice out of the ordinary, with those present who have not broken down 'has been shown by Enzo Foschi, Pd advisor to the Region. "Another insult to the city and the community. Frustrating to happen on a bus, "said the president of the province Nicola Zingaretti. While the delegate to the historic center Dino Gasperini hopes "that the police do full clarity, ensuring that the four leaders to justice soon."

[see also CORRIERE on the evening of Rome]