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 Els policies i militars italians homosexuals s'han aliat en la lluita contra els prejudicis i la homofòbia. Han dit prou a estar forçats a mantenir en secret la seva vida. Nicola Cicchitti, president de Polis Aperta, ha declarat als mitjans italians que s'han decidit a donar el pas gràcies al suport d'altres països europeus, i en especial de Gaylespol. En paraules de Cicchitti, la conferència de Barcelona ha estat un revulsiu per polis Aperta, i per la resta de la societat Italiana, donat que els principals mitjans italians van seguir el desenvolupament de la IV Conferència Europea de Gais i Lesbianes Policies.
GAY POLICE COME OUT 'Polis Aperta' group to fight prejudice in forces (ANSA) - Turin, September 2 - Italy's gay police and military are coming out to fight prejudice in the forces so that more of them don't have to keep their sexual preferences a secret. Gay and lesbian officers have set up a new association, Polis Aperta (Open Polis), which will have its founding meeting in Bologna later this month. ''We're coming out against creeping discrimination,'' said Nicola Cicchitti, president of the new group. The September 26 meeting in Bologna, a traditional bulwark of liberal sentiment, will draft the organisation's statute and draw up a series of initiatives including a 'collective coming out' which organisers hope will be as big as possible, Cicchitti said. He said the decision to rally openly to the cause had been encouraged by other European groups, particularly Gaylespol of Spain, which hosted this year's annual get-together of 14 uniformed gay associations in Barcelona. Italy: Security forces to launch Gay association Turin, 2 Sept. (AKI) - Gay members of Italy's security forces will "come out" later this month and launch their own association, the first of its kind in the country, Italian media reported on Tuesday. The Open Polis association will launch in the northern Italian city of Bologna on 26 September. Membership is open to gay men and women from the police, the paramilitary Carabinieri and tax police, as well as the army and the air force. "For many of us in uniform, the worry is not violent physical attacks, but blatant discrimination, and daily 'macho' jokes and language," said Open Polis President Nicola Cicchitti, who serves with Italy's tax police, quoted by Italian daily, Corriere della Sera. "The entry of women into the police and army has altered this macho culture somewhat, but hasn't been able to get rid of it," Cicchitti said. Some 200 gay members of Italy's security forces have so far applied to join Open Polis, which will hold a series of talks and elect regional delegates when it meets in Bologna. A key goal of the association will be to change attitudes towards gay men and women in the security forces and set up groups to train colleagues in handling crimes against gays. Open Polis is following the example of equivalent associations that have already been up other European countries, such as Spain's Gaylespol. The association organises anti-gay discrimination courses for the Civil Guard - the counterpart of Italy's Carabinieri or France's Gendarmerie. The awareness-raising courses are run by gay Civil Guard members. |
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