Category Archives: rome

Sick building

The university language centre, where I work, is on the seventh floor of one of Rome’s ugliest buildings, halfway between the Pyramid and St Paul outside the Walls. Thrown up in the 1970s, it manages to seem both shoddy and … Continue reading

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Gay Pride 2007: The interview (part two – the proof)

I’m ten lines down in the last column. You can just about see my name (and age).

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Gay Pride 2007: Reasoned response from the right

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Gay Pride 2007: The interview (part two)

More from the Rome pages of Il Messaggero: «Io sono etero, single, con un figlio – spiega Michaela Parris-Lord, 55 anni, ex assistente di volo – sono qui per protestare contro il Family day, perché l’Italia è ancora arretrata rispetto … Continue reading

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Gay Pride 2007: Information?

What’s most interesting today, after yesterday’s euphoria, is the silence of the midday television news programmes (TG1 and TG2). Family Day triggered days of attacks and counter-attacks, as does almost every political event in Italy, however trivial. But today? Not … Continue reading

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Gay Pride 2007: The interview (part one)

This comes from Il Messaggero, the Rome-based national daily. I was interviewed at the beginning of the march yesterday and said an awful lot, as you can imagine. (If you can’t, just click on the label homophobia.) The comment quoted, … Continue reading

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Gay Pride 2007

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Gay Pride 2007: Sour faces

Acidulous tourists outside a hotel. Faces like this were, fortunately, few and far between.

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Gay Pride 2007

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Gay Pride 2007: Bears

The most bear-faced (sorry) of all the many bears. There’s been an exponential increase in the bear category since 2000, as some of these photographs indicate. Cynically, this is a marketing miracle, in that it’s managed to transform overweight hairy … Continue reading

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