Six sentences, seven names: on the stage of the Concertone on May 1st Fedez reported the parole pronounced by the exponents of the League against the LGBT community, without hiding who the authors were. Homophobic phrases, only in one case officially denials, which were not followed by hard positions or measures of the party. Today Matteo Salvini, guest to Domenica Live its Channel 5, says that those phrases “are disgusted. Those who wish death go treated and punished“. Four people of the five cited by the singer who at the time covered one public office, however, still hold a position today and they are part of of the Carroccio. Indeed, in some cases they have even made a career.
Here is when those phrases were said and what happened to the politicians mentioned on Saturday by Fedez in his speech:
“If I had a gay son, I would burn him in the oven.” This is the sentence reported by the Genoese president of the association Agedo (Association of parents of homosexuals) Giovanni Vianello: he said he heard it uttered by Giovanni De Paoli in February 2016 on the sidelines of a hearing in the Health and Social Security Committee of the Liguria. The then regional councilor of the League has always denied, claiming to have added a “non“Between his words. Meanwhile, after the exposed presented by Agedo and the Committee for immigrants and against all forms of discrimination, De Paoli is a process per aggravated defamation because of his sentence: first case in Italy of extension of the Mancino law, which provides the aggravating circumstance for racist statements, even those homophobic.
“The gays? Let them start behaving like all normal people ”. These are the words spoken by the Northern League councilor Alessandro Rinaldi during the session of the City Council of Reggio Emilia live streaming of early April. In the video, Rinaldi is seen discussing a motion presented by two councilors to facilitate LGBT tourism. During his explanation of vote, the Northern League councilor said: “I find it discriminatory against straight people. I do not understand why continue in these things. Proclaim theequality, you want to be considered equal and you place yourself in a condition of difference ”. Then Rinaldi adds: “Do you want equality? You start acting like everyone else ordinary people“. After the controversy, on April 9 the same Northern League adviser did not retract, but on Facebook he added: “Sincerely I am fed up of the initiatives from sideshow of the lobby LGBTQ, which does not protect rights but only takes care of remarking in an obsessive way e grotesque a difference in sexual orientation ”.
“Gay victims of aberrations of nature”. It is the sentence written in a note from Luca Lepore e Massimiliano Bastoni, then municipal councilors of the League a Milano, on the occasion of the Milan Pride 2015, held between 22 and 28 June of that year. The two leaguers defined the event as a “depressing stage for some thousands of frustrated, victims of aberrations of nature”. Today they are still members of the League and hold public offices: Luca Lepore is councilor for the League in Municipality 2 of Milan, Massimiliano Bastoni is regional councilor of Lombardy for the Carroccio. On Thursday, he reported Republic, Bastoni participated in the presidium convened by CasaPound, Forza Nuova e LoyaltyAction on the anniversary of the death of Sergio Ramelli, young man of the Youth Front.
“Gays are a disaster for the reproduction and conservation of the species”. Words of Alberto Zelger, still today the municipal councilor of North league a Verona. The disse has the mosquito, on Radio 24, on 6 October 2018, along with other phrases such as “homosexual sex It is bad for health, causes diseases of all kinds “, or” theabortion it is not a right, but a abominable crime“. A few hours earlier the Verona City Council had approved the motion to include funds for initiatives and associations in the budget adjustment against abortion signed by Zelger. Many years earlier, in 2014, he had proposed an agenda (also approved) in which it was planned to delegate “to the Family Coordination-Educational Services the burden of collection of reports from parents and teachers on affective and sexuality education projects, as well as on shows and teaching material, which are in contrast with theirs moral principles e religious“. In practice, the possibility of reporting teachers who talk about homosexuality in school in the classroom.
“Gay marriage leads to the extinction of the race”. It was written in black and white in August 2020 in a Facebook post from Stella khorosheva, Northern League candidate for the city council of Lavis in Trentino (not elected). ”The gays have taken attention of people “,” The goal of the manipulators is destroy Christianity“,” Gay marriage leads to the extinction of the human race “, are the sentences contained in the post, which quoted the homophobic fundamentalist Scott Lively. Khorosheva was defended by the League mayor candidate in Lavis, Monica Ceccato (now city councilor), arguing that the intent of that post was to condemn Lively’s thinking. The online newspaper ilDolomiti.it however, he reconstructed other positions taken by Khorosheva herself, for example by commenting on the birth of the son of Nichi Vendola in 2016 he wrote: “Morality, the only law in the world is violated“, And then again“ a fennel it’s a fennel“, Also adding in the comments that“ it has arrived Satan with sodomites “.
“They give children injections to make them gay.” This is the charge that Elisa Serafini, a Genoese activist and former councilor for Culture, felt moved during the campaign for the Municipalities of Genoa in June 2017 by the then candidate of the League, Giuliana Livigni, also supporter of ‘Family Generation’. The pm Michele Stagno opened an investigation for defamation, reconstructing that Livigni had spread online and verbally repeated in front of various witnesses the thesis according to which “up Youtube makes a video in which Serafini is seen injecting children with a serum to make them gay ”. obviously a hoax, so much so that the Northern League candidate herself then wrote one to avoid the trial apology letter and paid compensation to Serafini, who decided to donate the sum to Arcigay.