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Proudly, Central and Newells raise the same flag

Society is taking small steps in the acquisition of rights. In topics of sexuality There were many conquests achieved in recent years, the product of long struggles, but it is still difficult to break with certain barriers, certain taboos that are just part of a macho and patriarchal society by nature. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) community works on a daily basis trying to eliminate behaviors that have to do with discrimination and, above all, with abusive treatment. Today, June 28, on Gay Pride Day, Central and Newell’s join this movement. Yes, from the biggest clubs in Rosario, entities where soccer is everything. That is why the importance of coming out of the closet, as is often said in matters of sexuality, in an environment in which machismo makes its own every second and where breaking down those barriers costs. Hence the importance of both clubs having a secretariat for gender and sexual diversity. Pablo Facciuto, vocal of Central, and Franco Magnano, president of futsal of Newell’s, agreed to the dialogue with Ovación and told why they decided to make their sexual orientation visible, collaborating with the fight that involves the militancy for respect towards themselves and the other.

There can no longer be acts of discrimination based on sexual orientation or the person you choose to love

“It is a matter of contributing a grain of sand, because there cannot continue to be acts of discrimination based on sexual orientation or by the person who decides to love,” was one of Facciuto’s sentences. He leader of Central, 33, collaborated with the Raúl Broglia board of directors in the secretariat of social activities, to which “we are trying to give another flight.” Today, as a member of the board of directors, he focuses on the work of the club’s gender secretary. From there, and with a strong yearning for deconstruction, he tries to help members and fans so that they are not discriminated against because of their orientation. sexual.

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From Newell’s. Franco Magnano is president of futsal leper.

While on the side of Newell’s the gender and diversity secretariat is also a reality, in which it works day by day Magnano.

Once my close group found out about my sexual orientation, the biggest fear was going public, because of what was going to happen the next day, when I went to the club.

“Once my close group found out about my sexual orientation, the biggest fear was going public, because of what was going to happen the next day, when I went to the club. Ghosts of hitting or insulting me even crossed my mind. But none of that happened. I celebrate that Newell’s work and make room for diversity ”, he confided Magnano.

… Read more Facciuto: “I was encouraged because it is not good to live in the occult”

… Read more “That some soccer player takes the flag of the gay pride would be valuable”

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