Arcigay Napoli reports, rent denied to lesbian girls. “He told me the house was for straight students only.”
“I have nothing against but I host heterosexual couples”: this is what Rita, a 28-year-old girl looking for an apartment in Naples to share with her partner, heard in response.
A report, that of Rita, arrived at Antinoo Arcigay Napoli. At the end of a series of investigative questions, Antinoo Arcigay Napoli says, the lady decided she could not rent the apartment to a couple of lesbian women, specifying that she rented only to "clean" and "referenced" students but above all "heterosexual".
“I feel really sad, angry, shocked – writes Rita – from the fact that a person in 2022 has the courage to blatantly write that only heterosexuals can live in his apartment: are you kidding? I'm not stupid and I'm sure that there are people and people who think these things every day, the shocking issue is that this unhealthy thought is expressed as any other comment".
“Really absurd - comments Daniela Lourdes Falanga, president of Antinoo Arcigay Naples – A deep reflection must be made on how much, in these months, Naples is losing in the cultural and welcoming fields. A metropolis that over the years has seen the battles for civil liberties shine, is now going backwards and is fearfully leaving to anyone the free will of what is healthy and insane”.
“Unfortunately what is emerging is only the tip of the iceberg of a violence that is much more widespread than it may appear. – adds Antonello Sannino, vice-president of the association – It is not reported for a multiplicity of factors, social, economic, political, religious, personal and family, but it is necessary to bring out so much hatred and always report. We forcefully ask the national legislator to be able to quickly approve a law against homotransphobia and to the Campania Region to quickly build the LGBT observatory provided for by the regional law approved in 2020″.
Article published on 8 June 2022 - 16:14
