Rome’s LGBTQ+ Pride festival marked its 30th celebration on Saturday with tens of thousands of visitors. Individuals donned brightly coloured clothes, waving flags, dancing, and singing through the European capital to observe gay rights and humorously blame Pope Francis.
Following a recent event in which Pope Francis apologized for using the word “faggotness” at a meeting, the parade took place. The Pope officially reaffirmed the Vatican’s prohibition on allowing gay people to study and become ordained priests.
” Interest, from here on high levels of faggotry”, read a mark on a big bike ridden by a lady in a rainbows- coloured helmet leading the parade.
A man dressed as Pope Francis displayed a sign that read,” This parade has too much faggotry.”
Elly Schlein, the head of Italy’s major opposition party, participated in the festival, dancing on a fly. Schlein is a powerful advocate for LGBTQ+ right, in striking contrast to Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni.
Meloni’s Brothers of Italy group opposes wedding justice, exact- sexual parents adopting children, and substitute pregnancies. The far-right authorities only granted parental rights to the natural parent in same-sex families last season.
A woman in the parade held a sign saying,” I do n’t like Meloni, but I like melons and red hair”.
Gen. Roberto Vannacci, a recently elected member of the right-wing League group, was fired by Italy’s defence minister for writing a contentious book, according to another sign.
” If according to Vannacci the LGBTQIA + is a minority… he has never met the seminarians of Pope Francis”, read a sign referencing the general.
( With inputs from agencies )
