bitful

Unable to sleep because of a stuffed nose, a bit of a cough and a sweaty chest. So I've just got up for a hot drink and a quick browse of the BBC News website to find out if the world had stopped turning while I was asleep.

Now, I usually avoid reading any news from Italy because I know it makes me mad to see the state that country is in, and then I rant for hours about it to whoever is unfortunate enough to be next to me.

So I should have known better than going to the Europe section and clicking on Italians clash on gay 'marriage' - Thousands of gay rights activists have demonstrated in Rome in support of same-sex unions.

The article said:

'Italy's left-wing opposition has said it will change the law if it wins the April general election to allow common-law partners of opposite sexes to obtain legal recognition of their unions, but it stopped short of proposing to allow gays and lesbians to wed.'

Of opposite sexes.

Three words that take me back to the country where I spent too many miserable years feeling dirty, abnormal, unrecognised, with no role in society. Or at best considered a trendy friend to hang with because of my supposedly infallible fashion sense and radical and controversial sexual choice.

It. Is. Not. A. Choice.

It it was a choice, I'd probably have chosen to be straight and save myself a hell of a lot of hassle. Believe me, I have tried. Very hard. But that was twenty years ago. I ran off, saved myself.

So now I have a stuffed nose and a cough and a sweaty chest and bottled up frustration, and teary eyes but it could just be my cold, or it could be because there is a bunch of sodding idiots who still stubbornly refuse to recognise that society has moved on.

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