Category: Stories of ordinary homophobia

Stories of ordinary homophobia

The story of Nex Benedict. How a non -binary teenager dies in Oklahoma

Text by James Fitzgerald published on BBC News (United Kingdom) on February 27, 2024. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. The case of Nex Benedict, a 16 -year -old non -binary teenager who died the day after suffering an attack in the bathrooms of his school in Oklahoma, shook the public opinion of the United States. But now the Trump administration has eliminated, ...

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Let's give the numbers: the victims of homotransphobia in 2024

Reflections by Massimo Battaglio of the omofobia.org project 2024 ends with two bad episodes of homophobia which occurred in the last days of the year, in Turin and Rome respectively: Turin, 29/12/2024: Leaving a gay evening, two boys are surrounded by six thugs and beaten to death. One also had the two cell phones he had with him stolen. THE...

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January 13, 1998. Alfredo Ormando, gay and Catholic, sets himself on fire in St. Peter's

Edited by Piero Montana On 13 January 1998 Alfredo Ormando, a thirty-nine year old Sicilian, native of San Cataldo (Caltanissetta), a homosexual with aspirations and ambitions as a writer, burned himself alive in St. Peter's in Rome, dousing himself in petrol and setting himself on fire with a lighter. Rescued by a policeman, who tries to put out the flames with his uniform jacket...

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Open letter to Andrea, who couldn't stand those who mocked him

Open letter by Gianni Geraci from Guado in Milan written on 22 November 2012 On 20 November 2012, driven by the continuous acts of bullying he had to endure in the school he attended, Andrea Spezzacatena committed suicide in Turin, a fifteen-year-old boy who everyone made fun of for the pink trousers he sometimes wore. In the days of the suicide the...

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Transphobia in Italy, the most atrocious and widespread discrimination against transgender people

Text by Massimo Battaglio In twelve years of research on data on violence and discrimination against LGBT+ people in Italy, we have noticed that transphobia always represents the most atrocious part, both quantitatively and from a "qualitative" point of view. The percentage of transphobic acts has never fallen below 10% of the total cases detected. On the contrary,...

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In Hungary with the homophobic hypocrisy of Father Bese

Reflections by Massimo Battaglio A couple of days ago, the online newspaper Dagospia came out with one of its sharp infographics about a Hungarian priest, Father Bese, well known for his friendship and collaborations with Orban as well as for his intransigent and reactionary positions – obviously including homophobia flaunted from the rooftops. Here you are...