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Alice Bellandi wins gold for Italy with a kiss. Giorgia Meloni wants to take away her rights as an Italian citizen. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Five@slrpnk.net to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Via Pics on Reddit as "Italian right wing prime minister Giorgia Meloni reacts to two girls kissing at the olympics"

Gay Olympic judo athlete wins gold and celebrates by kissing her girlfriend - Team LGBTQ's Alice Bellandi brought Italy its first Olympic gold medal in judo since 2008 in scintillating fashion.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the South Paris Arena for the Italy 🆚 Netherlands match
Italian far-right government limits parental rights of same-sex couples - Gay rights activists on Tuesday denounced as homophobic moves by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government to limit recognition of parental rights to the biological parent only in the case of same-sex parents.

Post was originally titled "Lesbian Kiss at the Olympics / Far Right Italian Prime Minister Reaction" but the pictures are unlikely to have been taken at the same event.

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

I knew a guy growing up, his dad was a preacher. When we were about 13-14 he asked me, “angryseal, have you ever given thought to being gay?” I told him I hadn’t, not seriously. He’s never said anything else about it but he is furiously homophobic today.

Ouch. That is just... so tragic, and so stupid. I wonder if he was still processing. Obviously nothing to do with you, but if some adult in his life had just had the audacity to say like "I don't know I don't think there's anything wrong with gay people" or somesuch. Well, you wonder if things could have gone differently for him.