In the past years, I have been frequently asked - by lovers and friends, or simply strangers with no boundaries - how I knew I was gay. What had been the moment the lightbulb had lit up? When had the letter from the Sapphic School of Witchcraft been delivered? How did I know? The fact is, I didn’t. I have a clear recollection of a specific night, I must’ve been eleven or so, and I was crying in bed thinking, if I ever fall in love with a woman, I’d marry a man and pretend tha

I'm so sorry but I have zero respect for the people who harass someone because of their preferred pronouns or because they identify as something which they may not understand. Can people just stop being disrespectful about other people's genders?! The way I see it, we have been brainwashed by the people around us into believing that gender is what is in our pants, which in turn fits us into one of two boxes: girl or boy, and the moment that you are placed into one of those tw

Italy may seem a modern country to most; we have arts, a semi-decent system of transportation, we dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic in a somehow efficient way and have won a bunch of international competitions in 2021. What do we have to envy the rest of Europe, you may ask. Basic human rights. That’s right. We do not have basic human rights for most of the population when it comes to violence and targeted aggression. LGBTQA+ and queer people, disabled people and women do not