I still remember the agitation as well as impatience that was spilling out of every pore of my skin on that day. It was a warm and quite humid June’s Saturday late morning in Paris and while I sat at an outside table of a random bar in Le Marais, sipping from my almost empty glass of Jura (ordering an Italian wine in France sounded somehow wrong), I considered how quickly five years of French classes in high school had suddenly gone down the drain. I was left with nothing but basic notions of the language, which wouldn’t get me much farther than ordering a drink, asking how to get to the city centre, and making sure that I wouldn’t be picking any snail-like food from a menu Continue reading
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We Are Family!
Boston, May 18th 2016
A year ago, I was joining hundreds of Americans in a Boston square celebrating the landmark decision of the Supreme Court to make same-sex marriages legal for everyone across all the 50 states of the Federation. Continue reading
Noi Siamo Una Famiglia
Un anno fa ero in una piazza di Boston e guardavo centinaia di americani festeggiare la storica sentenza della Corte Suprema americana che dichiarava il matrimonio tra persone dello stesso sesso come diritto da riconoscere indistintamente a tutti, in tutti i 50 stati della federazione. Continue reading
BEING GAY IS NOT A WOUND. OPEN LETTER TO PHILIPPE ARIÑO’S INTERVIEW
Last July Philippe Ariño released an interview “I, homosexual, tell you why the Catholic Church is right”, which unfortunately hasn’t been translated into English yet (I’ll see to that!). Philippe is a French catholic gay man and acted as one of the main activists in France who fought against the legalisation of gay marriages. Continue reading
Fare coming out non è giusto
Vivendo al di qua della Manica non ho modo di seguire le avventure di Maria e delle sue missive ma l’eco di quello che è successo su Canale 5 nella puntata di C’è Posta per Te del 15 febbraio sta ormai risuonando su tutto il World Wide Web (quello italiano almeno) e non ha tardato ad arrivare anche a Londra. Continue reading