Love Song: the story of an impossible wedding in Italy. Here because
"Sometimes he doesn't call; it's normal after more than ten years that if he's late he doesn't call. Then there is, very rarely, a moment when I call. Sometimes he doesn't answer. It's because he's coming home and he doesn't want me to spend. But it doesn't come. An accident. How soon will I know? Who will tell me? ”It begins like this Love Song. Story of a wedding, the story by Federico Novaro published by Isbn Edizioni recently in bookstores, with the description of an everyday moment typical of any couple. Whatever, because the person with whom Federico Novaro has been together for more than ten years is a man, Stefano Olivari.
Federico and Stefano told their story of love, and of denied rights as a couple, through a video in which they showed signs: the silent film of a "human adventure that culminated in the decision to get married in New York because in Italy it is not permit. The video, which we also showed you and which you can review below, boomed on Youtube, so much so that Fabio Fazio invited the couple to the stage of the Sanremo Festival in 2013, where Federico and Stefano told their story with signs in front of a wider audience, which may not go online.
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Now that story is just a book, the diary of funny or touching episodes, of truths that make you angry and others that leave you astonished: "Marriage is not only a question of" love, but also of death ", writes the" author, " it is not only, as they say, a promise and a commitment, but a protection launched beyond death to whom of the two will survive the "other".
Federico, what does it mean that marriage has more to do with death than with love?
Marriage, with its bonds of duties and rights, is a shield launched towards the future, where death could separate the couple. The inheritance, the right to the house in which one lives, the relations with relatives, all this is now automatically attributed through marriage to only one type of couple, those formed by a man and a woman. Here is the gigantic problem of rights. and democracy. The Italian state has at its base a discriminatory legal institution, reserved for a specific category of people. Two men can love each other and spend their whole life together, of course, but denying them marriage means denying them those guarantees for the future that other couples have, even when you are alone.
What would you expect from the Italian state, besides marriage for all, to make up for this lack of equal rights?
In my opinion, guaranteeing marriage to same-sex couples would be the engine for a progressive and automatic resolution of many injustices that derive from that denied right. I don't mean that all gay couples should get married from tomorrow! The possibility, the freedom to be able to do it, if you want, alone would regulate a thousand other shortcomings of freedom in the daily life of homosexuals. A law on the repression of homophobia, for example, well written and enforced, is necessary, but by itself, when the state is the first to be homophobic, it is of little use!
To learn more about the book: isbnedizioni.it
