On 13th of october 2009, the Chamber of Deputies rejected the so-called "Legge Concia", a bill introducing homophobia aggravation into the Italian legal order, because it was deemed unconstitutional.

Gays and lesbians of the Italian association Polis Aperta regret what happened in the Parliament, and declare their disappointment for the stunt of the law procedure.

We reassert that introducing a law for the protection of homosexual and transexual people, who have lately undergone intolerant attacks on the italian streets more and more often, would certainly contribute to increase the social condemnation of homophobia and transphobia.

More importantly, it would allow the police to act more firmly against the violence crimes, and it would encourage more gay, lesbian and transexual victims to leave the "conspiracy of silence" and to take legal actions.

Polis Aperta association complains about all the political system because most of the Deputies forgot about the LGBT requests, and because they gave priority to procedural tactic connected to power strategies, thus emphasizing the long distance between the political world end the real world.

Considering that the bill was rejected, Polis Aperta association calls on all the colleagues of Italian police, daily put to work on the streets of the Country, so that they pay attention to the so-called "hate crimes", even if they are not provided for by the Italian legislation.

We invite all of them to devote more attention and sensitivity to the possibility of receiving legal charges from the victims of homophobic attacks, because they are often afraid of coming out due to a widespread mistrust towards the institutions.

The board of Polis Aperta

A group of members of Polis Aperta took part in the National Pride 2009 held last June 27 in Genoa and has marched in an informal way wearing the T-shirt of the association.

Although the initiative has involved only a few members, many people were intrigued by our presence and welcome us with great satisfaction.

Our presence has been indeed an important signal that we would like to point out next year with the an official submission to the event, a greater number of participants and a banner that make us recognizable to the public as LGBT workers of police force.

The board of the Euro Gaypolice Association (EGPA)is very concerned about the safety of the participants of Gay Pride marches in the eastern european countries: Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia.
The board wants to recall the Chiefs of Police in those countries to stand for the safety of all those participants and instruct their staff to arrest all those people who wanting to attack or using violence against the people at the Gay Pride Marches.