Luna

 

 

 

 

 

 

Young adults  fiction, it can pleasanlty be read also by adults.

Well written, it describes the difficulties of two adolescents who have to cope with difference and gender.

 

Somewhere far far away from here…..

NY City: maybe the next city mayor willl be a woman committed in a same sex marriage. Something similar will not happen in Rome, for a long long time…. not before the Pope himself is a woman or will get married.

Pride and prejudice

This could fairly describe the “so called” left wing opinion on same sex marriages.

It’s happening….somewhere else!

News from Argentina. A law has been voted for transpeople, one of the more modern laws on the subject. Somewhere else something is moving.

It’s happening in Rome

Once again the LGBTIQ community in Rome is divided. I can’t stop thinking that it’s not principles or politics the reason why but mere economical and visibility reasons. Everybody can decide for oneself. Here one of the many blogs narrating what’s happening. It’s once again “uno nessuno centomila”, one, none or one houndred thousand just to quote Pirandello. Every year the same story, at first fights to decide the city for the national parade, then who and how must organize the city parade. I’m fed up with it, they’re ruining MY parade. We just should march all together, difficult to understand? One divided Pride in 2010, then the european pride last year… what about this year? Why should be the pride parade “property” of only one single association?

Transition – The Story of How I Became a Man

One of many trans-men autobiographies. At the beginning it goes back and forth in time anticipating some of what will come next. It doesn’t leave a sign for style or content and it pictures the path to transition of someone who at least had means to afford it, nonetheless it’s another element for the constant hunger of news, information and direct experience of many trans-people, so redundancy is welcome.

A world light years from here

I managed to tee a documentary from BBC Three – Sam and Evan: From Girls to Men (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01605z2) and I suddenly realized what it means “public service” and national televA

A documentary that makes people think and that may help trans teens.

No judgment but a story, simply narrated by the people who are living it.

Something that will never happen in this country. It will never be the national TV service to broadcast such a story in a time different from late at night, because children and teens might be hurt or influenced.

Gays have no place in public tv, imagine transpeople.

 

The story itself narrates the difficulties of two teen transmen, their lives, their ambitions, their emotions. Simply.

I would be glad to pay for a television which is of service, but that’s not the case in my country.

Albert Nobbs

The first film of the year was really a great and unexpected surprise.
Albert Nobbs  features an impressive Glenn Close and plenty of  charming actors and actresses in side roles. To be seen … without any spoilers……

2012 is coming…..shall I miss 2011?

This time last year I was at Home (Home Is Where The Heart Is as commonly and widely stated) happy for a permanent position and getting ready for “the big messy day”, the day we were getting married.

The end of the year was fussy, messy and full of anxiety but those two weeks up north were calming, happy and elating…..

Now, a year after, this end of year is almost subdued, sort of quiet. The end of a not so exalting year and the beginning of ….. the beginning of something yet to be known, yet to be met… something different and new…announced only by a long wait.

We’ll face what will come… yet…

While I think about it….

Happy new year.

 

choices

Today the old man at the ticket office of  Sint Servaant made us both pay reduced fare after pointing  at him and asking if he weere a studenta and our grinning denial.

The choice is…either he decide I was a student all the same or that I was over 65…. don’t wanna know which of them.