Current:Home > InvestRome LGBTQ+ Pride parade celebrates 30th anniversary, makes fun of Pope Francis comments-LoTradeCoin
Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade celebrates 30th anniversary, makes fun of Pope Francis comments
View Date:2024-12-25 09:16:27
ROME (AP) — The Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade celebrated its 30th anniversary Saturday as tens of thousands of people in brightly colored outfits marched through the Italian capital waving banners, dancing and singing as they marked gay rights and poked fun at Pope Francis.
Many of the signs and banners at the parade made fun over a recent comment made by the pontiff.
The Pope had to issue an apology last month after Italian media quoted unnamed bishops saying that Francis jokingly used the term “faggotness” while speaking in Italian during a meeting. He had used the term in reaffirming the Vatican’s ban on allowing gay men to enter seminaries and be ordained priests.
Francis reportedly repeated the word a second time in a meeting with Rome priests this week.
“Attention, from here on high levels of faggotry,” read a sign on a large motorcycle driven by a woman in a rainbow-colored hat at the front of the parade.
A man dressed up as Pope Francis held a sign reading “there is too much faggotry in this parade.”
The leader of Italy’s main opposition party, Elly Schlein, danced on a float at the center of the parade. She is a strong supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, with views differing sharply from Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni.
Meloni’s Brother of Italy party program states it is against marriage equality, gay parents adopting children, and surrogate pregnancies. Last year, her far-right government limited recognition of parental rights to the biological parent only in families with same-sex parents.
A woman held up a sign reading, “I don’t like Meloni, but I like melons and red hair.”
Another sign made fun of Gen. Roberto Vannacci, a newly elected member of Parliament for the European Party with the right-wing League party. Vannacci was fired by Italy’s defense minister after writing a book deemed offensive to women, gays and Blacks.
“If according to Vannacci the LGBTQIA+ is a minority … he has never met the seminarians of Pope Francis.”
veryGood! (45)
Related
- Homes of Chiefs’ quarterback Mahomes and tight end Kelce were broken into last month
- Investigation finds a threat assessment should have been done before the Oxford High School shooting
- 'Bridgerton' actor had 'psychotic breaks' while on show, says Netflix offered 'no support'
- Minnesota governor eliminates college degree requirement for most state jobs
- Mike Tyson is expected to honor late daughter during Jake Paul fight. Here's how.
- 2034 World Cup should never go to Saudi Arabia. But FIFA turns a blind eye to sports washing
- Israel targets Hamas' 300-mile tunnel network under Gaza as next phase in war begins
- Pat Sajak’s Daughter Maggie Just Won Halloween in Wheel of Fortune Outfit
- The ancient practice of tai chi is more popular than ever. Why?
- What 10 states are struggling the most to hire workers? See map.
Ranking
- GreenBox Systems will spend $144 million to build an automated warehouse in Georgia
- A fire in the Jewish section of a cemetery in Austria’s capital causes damage but no injuries
- North Dakota woman arrested for allegedly killing boyfriend with poison; police cite financial motives
- Beijing’s crackdown fails to dim Hong Kong’s luster, as talent scheme lures mainland Chinese
- Women’s baseball players could soon have a league of their own again
- 12 people killed, including baby, in plane crash in Brazilian Amazon
- Henry Winkler on being ghosted by Paul McCartney, that 'baloney' John Travolta 'Grease' feud
- Australia cannot strip citizenship from man over his terrorism convictions, top court says
Recommendation
-
Fantasy football waiver wire: 10 players to add for NFL Week 11
-
Eruption of Eurasia’s tallest active volcano sends ash columns above a Russian peninsula
-
Hungary bans teenagers from visiting World Press Photo exhibition over display of LGBTQ+ images
-
Las Vegas police use patrol vehicle to strike and kill armed suspect in fatal stabbing
-
Surfer Bethany Hamilton Makes Masked Singer Debut After 3-Year-Old Nephew’s Tragic Death
-
At 83, Jack Nicklaus says he plays so poorly now that 'I run out of golf balls'
-
Powerball winning numbers from Oct. 30 drawing: Jackpot now at $152 million
-
At the Supreme Court, 'First Amendment interests all over the place'