{"id":3044,"date":"2025-03-03T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:05:21","slug":"san-valentino-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/san-valentino-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SAME KISS: VALENTINE&#039;S DAY IN THE SQUARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3042\" src=\"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/unnamed-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/unnamed-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/unnamed-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/unnamed-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/unnamed.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also this year, the 14th, on the occasion of\u00a0<strong>Saint Valentine<\/strong> there was the initiative &quot;\u201c<strong><span class=\"il\">The Same Kiss<\/span><\/strong>\u201c, organized by Gay Center with Arcigay in various cities of Italy: this year we will be in the square with an awareness initiative\u00a0<strong>against homotransphobia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We have been<strong> in various cities such as<\/strong> Rome, Reggio Calabria, Latina, Viterbo, Rieti, Frosinone, Albano Laziale, Quarto (NA), where information leaflets were distributed and <strong>Baci Perugina<\/strong>\u00a0donated by Perugina.<\/p>\n<p>In particular to\u00a0<strong>Rome <\/strong>\u00a0the volunteers of Arcigay Roma and Gay Center were at <strong>Ostiense Square<\/strong>\u00a0to reiterate a clear message: every\u00a0<span class=\"il\">kiss<\/span>\u00a0has\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the same<\/span> value and we also took the opportunity to inform about the reality of the &quot;\u201c<strong>conversion therapies<\/strong>\u201c: Although homosexuality has no longer been considered an illness since 1990, treatments aimed at correcting the sexual orientation and gender identity of LGBTQIA+ people, in an attempt to make them heterosexual and cisgender, are still legal in Italy and many European countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Being LGBTQIA+ is not a choice<\/strong>, nor something that can or should be changed. Therefore, alongside the celebration of love in all its forms, we want to continue denouncing the violence and discrimination that still affect our community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3045\" src=\"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5601-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5601-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5601-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5601-768x1365.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5601-864x1536.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5601-1152x2048.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5601-scaled.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3046\" src=\"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5604-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5604-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5604-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5604-768x1365.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5604-864x1536.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5604-1152x2048.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5604-scaled.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3047\" src=\"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5607-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5607-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5607-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5607-768x1365.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5607-864x1536.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5607-1152x2048.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/IMG_5607-scaled.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the 14th, on the occasion of Valentine&#039;s Day, the &quot;Lo stesso Bacio&quot; initiative took place, organized by Gay Center with Arcigay in various cities across Italy: this year we will be in the square with an initiative\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}