Bari Satisfaction, 5 thousand folks within the streets for rights: Decaro additionally within the entrance row. “It is a free metropolis that is aware of find out how to love”

Beneath the solar’s rays, Piazza Umberto was reworked right into a celebration of the Arcolaleno, of Lgbtqia+ rights and freedom. The Bari Satisfaction 2024 procession began from right here with about 2,000 folks, which grew to become 5 thousand in the course of the occasion.

The delight celebration introduced collectively college students, staff and people who really feel exploited or disrespected. Within the procession there may be “Tony Present” by Acquaviva delle Fonti, 19 years previous, who right now makes his debut as a drag queen. The outgoing mayor of Bari just isn’t lacking Antonio Decaro: “It is a free metropolis that is aware of find out how to love. 20 years have handed for the reason that first version. And we’ve got come a good distance and we’ll proceed to take action. However the giant participation is already a hit”.

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And Decaro is within the entrance row holding onto the Bari Satisfaction banner in the course of the procession. Adopted by the Hyperlink and Uds pupil unions. On the wagon Leoluca the Armigerus of Combined, dressed because the Pope. On a banner the which means of the demonstration: “We’re right here for the precise to exist”.

The rally started simply earlier than 3pm in Piazza Umberto and left shortly after 4.30pm to encompass the middle taking place through De Rossi, crossing Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and taking the seafront on the Margherita theatre, to enter the neighborhood Madonnella (from Piazza Diaz) and return to Piazza Umberto after touring alongside Through Cardassi.

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“Daily we expertise on our our bodies harmful assaults that this authorities directs at LGBTQIA+ folks and in any respect topics that don’t mirror the requirements of a patriarchal and hetero-normative society”, defined the Bari Satisfaction coordination.

Along with the combat in opposition to homophobia and discrimination based mostly on sexual or gender identification, this yr’s march stands out for its sturdy name for peace as defined Valerio Strawberry of Bari Satisfaction: “We dedicate this procession to Palestine. As a result of the problem of civil rights can’t be separated from the political and social contexts”.

The procession was, as ordinary, preceded by a political manifesto which this yr focuses on the idea of dwelling, understood as an emblem of security: “Once we thought collectively about what Satisfaction meant for us this yr, the picture of a home has helped us to attach apparently distant claims, which we really feel are ours – thus states the start of the doc – It turns into an goal to decide on the household we want and to have the ability to reside in an area that offers us freedom”.