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RIGHTS – LEARNING – TRAINING
                                               5-10 JULY 2019

Roma EuroGames 2019 committee wants to make Roma EuroGames a great event of
Sport, Culture and Human Rights.

From the 5th of July to the 10th of July, before the opening Ceremony of July 11th, a full
week of events will take place in Rome: 2 Conferences, 5 workshops, 4 open debates, 2
open days, 3 guided tours, 2 theater shows.

We believe sport can change LGBTI people’s lives, and we also believe that sport can
change society and tackle all kinds of discrimination.
Roma EuroGames Week is a strong interactive cultural week with a multitarget and
intersectional approach. With activists and international experts we will focus on the main
challenges involving LGBTI people in sports as well as in life: Transgender and Intersex
participation, racism and double discriminations, sexism and gender equality.
The several events and contributions will not be focused just on sport, but will aim to better
describe the relevant topics and perspectives: athletes, activists, artists, psychologists,
lawyers and researchers are going to share competences and address the general public
as well.

Participants are expected to give active contributions, to intervene and to learn about the
topics. An open resources archive with videos and materials will be available on the
website at the following link in order to be a contribution for further steps and next
EuroGames editions.

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Fighting LGBTI discrimination in sports encouraged the
creation of safe and inclusive environments like the
EuroGames. Thanks to this effort, we can now foster
our commitment for a change in mainstream sport and
shed light on the strong connections between sport,
identity and sexuality.
Sport (and LGBTI sport as well) has a tremendous
potential as a tool for social change, as it creates
educational strategies while tackling hate speech,
discrimination and marginalization.

In order to do that, topics such as homo-bi-transhopia, gender stereotypes and other
discriminations should be considered as a threat for everyone’s freedom, not just for the
people who are directly involved.

In order to book the EuroGames Week events please log in with your registration
profile or register as a visitor!

Info: culture@romaeurogames2019.org

EuroGames Week staff:

Rosario Coco – Roma EuroGames Cultural Area
Matteo Boccini – Logistic assistant
Andrea Giuliano – Translation assistant
Milo Serraglia – Live-web assistant

                                                                                   Adriano Bartolucci Proietti
                                                                           President of Roma EuroGames 2019

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Conferences

Outsport for EuroGames – Main Conference
Sport as the next challenge towards gender equality and LGBTI-
inclusive communities
Date – July 10
Place – Spazio Europa – Via IV Novembre 149 (Via Nazionale/Piazza Venezia)
Time – 09:00 – 18.00

Outsport is the first European project tackling discrimination based on sexual orientation
and/or gender identity in sport through scientific research and pedagogical approaches.
It’s promoted by AICS and its LGBTI department Gaycs. Outsport is co-funded by the EU
through the Erasmus+ Program and it is carried out by a consortium of 5 project partners
from Italy, Scotland, Hungary, Germany and Austria (Picture: Outsport presentation in
June 2017 (Rome – Parliament Venue)
Thanks to the cooperation among Outsport and Roma EuroGames 2019, the Outsport
EuroGames Conference will be the main cultural event of the Roma EuroGames 2019,
which will host the final discussion on the main topics of the cultural program and the final
reports of the specific workshops.

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Conference Program

9:00 – 9:30 – Registration
9:30 – Keynotes and introductions
Representatives of EGLSF (European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation) and Roma
EuroGames 2019 Committee.

10:00 – 11:15 – Roundtable – From Stonewall to EuroGames: The role of Sport in the
upcoming intersectional challenges of the LGBTI movement –

This panel will involve activists and historical figures of the LGBTI sport movement as a
tribute to the fiftieth Stonewall anniversary. What has changed in the LGBTI movement
from Stonewall to the beginning of LGBTI sports organizations? What was their
contribution? An overview of the possible contribution of Sport in the most important
worldwide challenges of the LGBTI movement will be outlined, especially visibility,
education and multiple discrimination (Picture: Hugh Torrence presenting the LEAP
Manifesto on inclusive Physical Education during the Outsport starting event in June 2017
(Rome).

Annette Wachter – Co-President of EGLSF
Pepe Garcia – Former co-President of EGLSF
Jelena Celebic – Activist from Femslam football
Ambid Zaman – Aktionsbündnis gegen Homophobie board member
Katherine Burrows – Activist for Transgender Rights
Moderator: Rosario Coco – Roma EuroGames Cultural Area

11:15-11:30 – Coffee break
11:30 – 11:45 – Contribution: LGBTI and sport: legal perspectives

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Giovanni Guercio – Lawyer (specialized in I & T issues)

11:45 – 13:00 – Roundtable – LGBTI people in sport: from new data to the challenge of
visibility.

This panel will show the results of the Outsport Europe-wide survey (http://www.out-
sport.eu/research) regarding the experience of LGBTI people in sport, carried out by the
University of Cologne (DSHS) as Outsport partner.

Starting from this data, which are the first in Europe concerning the topic, experts and
activists will discuss the challenges of LGBTI visibility in sports (Picture: Tobias Menzel
(German Sport University of Cologne) presenting the main findings of the Outsport survey
on November 2018 in Glasgow).

Sarah Townsend – EGLSF General Secretary
Klaus Heusslein – Former co-President of EGLSF and Associate Spokesman of DSHS
research team
Luisa Rizzitelli – Assist President (Italian Association of Female Athletes)
Alexander Carollo – Transgender activist, ex-professional athlete, physioterapist
Moderator: Andrea Maccarrone – Activist and Educator

13:15 – 14:15 – Lunch time
14:15 – 14:45 – Reports from the Rome EuroGames Week workshops
(A speaker from each Workshops of the week program will outline the main results of the
activities)

14:45 – 15:45 – Case Histories: witnesses from LGBTI athletes and activists and debate
15:45 – Coffee break

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16:00 – Report from the “Outsport Training”, Non formal education through sport
László Földi – Trainer and Educator, expert in Non Formal Education Through Sport

16:30 – Roundtable – Paralympic sport: All Together Now?

This panel discussion will look at the experience of LGBTI and queer athletes with
disabilities, reflecting on how visible disability is within the LGBTI sports movement and on
what this means for events such as EuroGames, now and in the future.

This panel is co-organized with LEAP Sport Scotland (Picture: Stefan Hoggan (Photo:
Scottish Disabilty Sport).

Hugh Torrance – Co-President of EGLSF and Director of Leap Sport Scotland
Stefan Hoggan – Paralympic Athlete
Representative of the Italian Paralympic committee
Representative of FIR – Italian Rugby Federation
Moderator – Andrea Giuliano

17:45 – Final Debate
18:30 – Conclusions

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Conference – The legal protection of LGBTI people in the sporting
world

Date – July 6
Partner – Rete Lenford (Lawyer association for LGBTI rights)
Place – WEGIL – Largo Ascianghi 5 (Trastevere)
Time – 09:30 – 13:00

The event is organized by Rete Lenford – Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI – in collaboration
with Roma EuroGames 2019.
What is the nature and extent of discrimination in sport today? How does discrimination
affect people’s experience of sport and their wider lives? What are the barriers on bodies
and sexualities to change? How can homo-biphobia and transphobia be tackled in the
future? These are some of the issues which we hope to explore within the planned
speeches listed in the program below (Picture: Rete Lenford during a Pride march)

                                              Conference Program

– Introduction
– First Topic: Sport and homophobia: the legal instruments for combating discrimination
based on sexual orientation – Michele Potè, Turin-based lawyer
– Second Topic: Bodies, gender and sexuality: the protection of transsexuals and
intersexuals in sports – Effiong L. Ntuk, Turin-based lawyer
Moderator: Luca Giacomelli – Representative of Rete Lenford association

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The second part of the event consists in the screening of the documentary “Il calciatore
invisibile” (“The invisible football player” – 60 minutes) which, through the experience of a
gay-friendly soccer team in Tuscany, investigates the issue of homosexuality in the world
of football, among prejudice and stereotypes. Director Matteo Tortora and some of the
protagonists of the documentary will be present (Picture: A moment from the making of the
documentary “Il calciatore invisibile”. Photo: Lezpop.it).

                                                   Debates

Welcome – Presentation of the EuroGames Week
Date – July 6
Partners – QOR queers of Rome / Gabos Photography
Place – “La Bibliotechina” – Love Giam Estate (Eur Magliana – Metro B)
Time – 20:30 – 0.00

Events
Welcome point with EuroGames partners and photo exhibitions:
“Our bodies talk of us” – QOR queers of Rome
“Don’t dream it, be it” – Gabos Photography

Program
- Introduction: Roma EuroGames Committee
- Ambassadors Speeches
- Presentation of Photo exhibitions

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- Presentation of IT inclusion Group
- Concert by singer/songwriter Elicandro.

The IT Group (Intersex-Trans) is a group of activists whose purpose is supporting
transgender and intersex participants at the EuroGames.

Open Debate – Transgender and intersex people in sport
Outcomes of the experts workshop will be discussed in an open debate

Date – July 7
Partner – Roma EuroGames – IT Inclusion group
Place – Caffè Letterario, Via Ostiense 95 (Piramide – Garbatella – Metro B)
Time – 19:30 – 21.30
Food and Drinks available

Transgender athlete Annah Mouncey
(Photo: Foxsport.com

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Open Debate – Racism and double discrimination
Outcomes of the experts workshop will be discussed in an open debate

Date – July 8
Partner – Liberi Nantes (Refugees sport association with the patronage of UNHCR)
Place – Caffè Letterario, Via Ostiense 95 (Piramide – Garbatella – Metro B)
Time – 19:30 – 21.30
Food and Drinks available

The Italian gay friendly football team after a match
with the refugees team “Liberinantes” in february 2019

Open Debate – Sport and women. Prejudices, stereotypes,
successful experiences
Outcomes of the experts workshop will be discussed in an open debate

Date – July 9
Partner – Assist (Italian association of female athletes)
Place – Caffè Letterario, Via Ostiense 95 (Piramide – Garbatella – Metro B)
Time – 19:30 – 21.30
Food and Drinks available

Assist is the Italian national Association for female athletes rights

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Workshops

Workshop – Gender stereotypes, homo-transphobia and bias in
media – interactive working group activity.
Date - July 6
Partner - Gaynet (Journalist association for LGBTI and media)
Place - WEGIL - Largo Ascianghi 5 (Trastevere)
Time – 14:30-17.30

The illustration on the Pioneer plaque, a probe launched by Nasa
in the 70’s representing the human race (Photo: Wikipedia)

Mainstream media have a hard impact in our way of seeing roles between men and
women as well as between straight and gay, bisexual, intersex and transgender people.
Ads, TV shows and films portray people with noticeable characteristics based upon
stereotypes which reinforce our convictions about what a male or female should be. So we
can end up having bias on gender roles and sexual orientations even if we think we have
an inclusive approach.
Language itself can reinforce the bias, enhancing bad habits that are hard to die.
With an expert in media and language bias, this workshop will carry out a critical analysis
of certain communication contents in order to elaborate tools and methodologies to identify
the impact of stereotypes and prejudices on our behaviours and reduce them.
The workshop is particularly recommended for coaches, teachers and PE teachers.

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Speaker: Alessandro Paesano - Expert and Trainer in media and communication

Workshop – Transgender and Intersex people in sport
Experts workshop/seminar on “I” and “T” inclusion in sport

Date – July 7
Partner – Roma EuroGames – IT Inclusion group
Place – Via Francesco Negri 67-69 (UAAR Office – Metro B Piramide/Garbatella)
Time – 10:30 -14.30

There is a great debate about transgender athletes and no consolidate practices are
available especially in amateur sport.

In 2015 alone, the International Olympic Committee issued the new guidelines concerning
transgender athletes, in order to allow them to choose their elective competition gender
regardless of sex reassignment. Those who transit from female to male gender are
allowed to compete in the male category without restrictions.
Those who transit from male to female gender can participate in the female category
declaring they will not change their declared identity for the next 4 years and showing that
in the 12 months prior the first competition they maintained a certain level of testosterone
(lower at 10 nmol / L).
These guidelines are just the first solution to a deep and complex issue which requires the
consideration of safety for all athletes, differences among sports, differences between
facts and cultural heritage. With the help of activists and transgender athletes, this
workshop will focus on case histories and personal experiences from grassroots sport to
professional levels. (Picture: Caster Semenya has been considered an hyper androgynous
athlete (or DSD – disorder in sex development) and in other cases an intersex person. She
is well known for the controversy against IAAF for “differences of sex development” rules.
On July 3th 2019, the Supreme Court of Switzerland suspended the decision of the Court
of Arbitration for Sport, which had decided (last May) that she would had to accept the new
IAAF regulations and be forced to reduce testosterone levels. Photo: The South African)

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Contributors:
Paola Biondi – Psychologist
Giulia Senofonte – Researcher in the field of endocrinology
Giovanni Guercio – Lawyer (specialized in I & T issues)
Katherine Burrows – Activist for Transgender rights and athlete
Cristina Leo – Activist for Transgender rights
Isabella Imbimbo – Researcher in the field of neuroscience
Antonella Palmitesta – Sexologist
Representative of Saifip (Public health service for transgender identities)

Workshop – Racism and double discrimination
Experts workshop/seminar. Exploring intersections among racism and homophobia.

Date – July 8
Partner – Liberi Nantes (Refugees sport association with the patronage of UNHCR)
Place – AICS national office – Via Barberini 68 (Repubblica – Metro A)
Time – 09:30 -15.30

This Workshop aims to address the complex and controversial issue of double
discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity and racism, in order to
support policies of knowledge, inclusion, dialogue and full affirmation of human rights and
individual freedoms. A table that focuses on the competences, testimonies, experiences
and good practices of witnesses, experts and activists engaged on this issue (Picture:
Paola Egonu, athlete of the Italian national volleyball team. Photo: Volleynews.it).
The growing political and media speculation on the migration phenomenon in recent years
has instead fueled, also among the LGBTQI + people, the paradox of increasing hostility
towards migrants, often fed by the fear that different cultures constitute a specific danger

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of homophobic retreat. How to support the debate on individual freedoms and human
rights? How to encourage and stimulate the exchange between people of different cultures
and religions? Can sport offer a positive contribution?
Contributors:
Wajahat Abbas Kazmi – Activist for “Allah loves Equality”
Kadir Özdemir – Project Manager Queer Refugees Network Center (Germany)
Giorgio dell’Amico – Activist for Arcigay
Piercesare Notaro – Blogger for “Il Grande Colibrì”
Alberto Urbinati – President of Liberinantes (Refugees sport association with the
patronage of UNHCR)
Leila Daianis – Activist for Transgender Rights
Anbid Zaman – Aktionsbündnis gegen Homophobie board member
Cristina Franchini – Representative of UNHCR
Yuri Guaiana – President of Certi Diritti and ILGA Europe board member
Moderator: Andrea Maccarrone – Activist and Educator

Workshop – Sexism and gender equality: how to enhance
cooperation between women and athletes in Europe
Experts workshop/seminar on gender issues and sport.

Date – July 9
Partner – Assist (Italian association of female athletes)
Place – AICS national office – Via Barberini 68 (Repubblica – Metro A)
Time – 09:30 – 13:30

Sport is traditionally a male-dominated sector and progress in gender equality in this area
is hindered by the social constructions of femininity and masculinity, which often associate
sport with ‘masculine’ characteristics, such as physical strength and resilience, speed, and
a highly competitive spirit (Picture: The Italian national women football team during the

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2019 FIFA World women Championship. Photo: ANSA)
Women who engage in sports may be perceived as ‘masculine’, while men who are not
interested in sports could be considered ‘unmanly’. Coaching is another area of sports
where women are largely underrepresented. Based on figures from seven EU Member
States, it is estimated that only 20% to 30% of all sports coaches in Europe are women.
There are also more men than women employed in sports, and data from EIGE’s Gender
Statistics Database (European Institute for Gender Equality) shows that at European
level, from 2012 to 2014, women’s employment in sports actually decreased, whereas
men’s increased.
Concerning Italy, Italian law still does not acknowledge professional female athletes.
This workshop aims to focus on a historical analysis of the rise of female sport in Europe
and to investigate possible cooperation between activists, athletes and sports
organizations in Europe to tackle sexism in sport, encourage women participation and
foster gender inclusive sport environments.

Contributors:
Lilia Giugni – Researcher, Cambridge Judge Business School
Cristina Obber – Journalist, writer and activist from Rebel Network
Antonio Rotelli – Lawyer from Rete Lenford
Filppo Biolè – Lawyer, Assist Consultant
Luisa Rizzitelli – President of Assist and Rebel Network
Sarah Townsend– EGLSF General Secretary
Odette Gould – European Lesbian Forum board member
Vanessa Vizziello – Rebel Network activist

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Outsport workshop – Move and Learn!
Non formal education through sport to develop social competences (practical
experience on the sports field)

Date – July 9
Partner – Outsport project
Place – To Live Sport Center – Via Aristide Leonori 8 (Eur Magliana – Metro B)
Time – 9:30 -13.00

How can sport and physical education foster the development of social and citizenship
competences required for democratic and inclusive culture? How can we use sport and
physical education to create a safe learning environment to acquire the relevant
knowledge, skills and attitude to mutual respect, empathy, equality and many other social
skills? How can we bring a sport session well beyond improving physical skills and
competitive spirit? This workshop will make you experience how all this is possible through
actual physical activities (Picture: A Non formal Education exercise during the Outsport
workshop held in Budapest in October 2017)

The workshop is facilitated by Education through Sport expert László Földi, who has 25
years of experience in non-formal education for democratic citizenship and Human Rights.
Trainer: László Földi – Trainer and educator, expert in the field of Non Formal Education
through sport

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Art and Music

Guided tour – Art and eros in the history of Rome – From Piazza
Venezia to the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano

Date – July 6
Partner – Gaynet (Journalist association for LGBTI and media)
Place – Starting from Piazza Venezia
Time – 9:30 -12:30

The tour will start in Piazza Venezia, one of the main squares of Rome. Its main landmarks
are the Altare della Patria, national monument and symbol of the unification of Italy,
Palazzo Venezia (15th century), headquarters of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini from
1929 to 1943 and Trajan’s Column, built by Emperor Trajan and completed in 113 AD.
We will then pass through Trajan’s Market, the Forum of Caesar (I century B.C) and the
Forum of Augustus (1st century A.C), reaching the church of Saint Peter in Chains where
we will see the “Moses”, sculpted by Michelangelo Buonarroti (16th century).
We will walk to the Colosseum, and then the mosaics of the churches of Santi Cosma and
Damiano (6th century AD), San Clemente (12th century AD), Santa Maria in Domnica (9th
century AD), the frescoes of San Giovanni Rotondo (16th century AD) and Santi Quattro
Coronati (13th century AD) will bewitch us. We will visit the remains of the temple of
Claudius (1st century BC), the park of Villa Celimontana (16th-19th centuries) and end our
visit in San Giovanni in Laterano, a cathedral founded in the 4th century by Constantine,
the first Christian emperor, and seat of papacy from the 4th to the 14th century AD.
(Picture: Turismoroma.it)

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Speaker: Valerio Mezzolani – Researcher in History of Art
Assistant: Luca Marana – Student of History of Arts

Guided tour – Art and eros in the history of Rome – From Piazza
del Popolo to Trastevere
Date – July 7
Partner – Gaynet (Journalist association for LGBTI and media)
Place – Starting from Piazza del Popolo (Flaminio Piazza del Popolo – Metro A)
Time – 9:30 -12:30

The tour will start in Piazza del Popolo, one of the main squares of Rome. We will visit the
church of Santa Maria del Popolo and its famous paintings by Michelangelo Merisi known
as Caravaggio (16th-17th century AD), then walk up to the Pincio gardens where we will
admire the obelisk of Antinoo (2nd century BC). We will walk down the steps of Trinità dei
Monti and continue to Piazza di Spagna up to the mausoleum of Augustus (I century BC),
the Pantheon (2nd century BC) and the sacred area of Torre Argentina, the place where
Julius Caesar was killed (1st century BC).
Piazza Farnese, designed by Michelangelo Buonarroti in the 16th century will be the next
step, while the adjacent Jewish ghetto, one of the oldest Jewish communities in the World
which has been part of Rome for more than two thousand years.
After crossing the Tiber to Isola Tiberina from bridges Fabrico (I century BC) and Cestius
(4th century AD), we will walk through the ancient district of Trastevere and will finally
reach the church of San Francesco di Ripa, where we will admire the statue of Ecstacy of
blessed Ludovica Albertoni by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (17th century) (Picture: ANSA)

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Speaker: Valerio Mezzolani – Researcher in History of Art
Assistant: Luca Marana – Student

Guided tour – Art and eros in the history of Rome – From the
Vatican to Santa Maria degli Angeli
Date – July 8
Partner – Gaynet (Journalist association for LGBTI and media)
Place – Starting from Ottaviano (Ottaviano Metro A)
Time – 9:30 -12:30

The tour will start in Piazza San Pietro, where we will admire the dome of Michelangelo
Buonarroti (16th century AD) and the colonnade of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (17th century
AD). We will continue to Castel Sant’Angelo, mausoleum of Emperor Hadrian (2nd century
BC) and once the defensive fortress of the popes (15th-17th centuries AD). After crossing
the Tiber from Ponte Sant’Angelo (2nd century BC) we will reach Piazza Navona, the
stadium of Domitian (1st century BC). We will visit the churches of San Luigi dei Francesi
and Sant’ Agostino to admire the paintings of Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio
(16th-17th century AD) and Santa Maria della Pace, featuring the Sibille fresco by
Raffaello Sanzio (16th century) .
We will then head to the church of Santa Maria Sopra Minevra to admire the Christ
sculpted by Michelangelo Buonarroti (16th century) and pass by the temple of Hadrian
(2nd century BC), the Column of Marcus Aurelius (2nd century BC), the Trevi Fountain
(18th century AD) and Santa Maria della Vittoria with the Transverberation or Ecstasy of
Santa Teresa, sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (17th century AD). The tour will end at
the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, designed by Michelangelo Buonarroti (16th
century AD), within the Baths of Diocletian (3rd century AD) (Picture: ANSA)

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Speaker: Valerio Mezzolani – Researcher in History of Art
Assistant: Luca Marana – Student

Rainbow Theatre – Lost Movement Company presents: “GLO”

Date – July 6
Partner – Lost Movement Company
Place – Teatro Lo Spazio, Via Locri 42-44
Time – 21:30 – 23:00

Directed by Nicolò Abbattista and Christian Consalvo
Co-produced by OPLAS – Centro Regionale Danza Umbria, Fattoria Vittadini,
theWorkRoom, Fondazione Milano.

GLO tells about stories: all the same, all different from one another. It brings you inside a
kaleidoscope where colourful images swirl to turn acts into emotions. It tells about people
who love and desire one another. Women, men, transgender people who chose
themselves and their own truth.

The postmodern beat meets the cha cha, goes through the ‘80s, slides on electronic notes
as classical score, and drags the LGBTQIA+ world on the scene with all its shades: a
world made of eccentricity, courage, boredom, freedom, makeup, transgression,
tenderness, deep love, but also fear, madness and dark places to hide.

“So the thumpa-thumpa continues. It always will, no matter what happens, no matter who’s
President. As Our Lady of Disco, the Divine Miss Gloria Gaynor, has always sung to us:
We Will Survive” (Picture: Lost Movement Company)

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Dance/movement therapy – Open Day
Date – July 6
Place – “La Bibliotechina” – Love Giam Estate (Eur Magliana – Metro B)
Partner – APID (Associazione Professionale Italiana Danza-Movimento Terapia)
Time – 9:30 – 13:30

Dance/movement therapy (DMT) is based on the fact that the mind, the body, the
emotional state and relationships are interrelated. It is defined as the therapeutic use of
movement to promote the physical, emotional, cognitive and relational integration of the
individual, their affective and psychosocial maturity, the development of their creative
potential for the purpose of improving health and well-being. “Dance/movement therapists”
(dmt) are professional figures operating in the clinical and / or socio-educational field, with
functions of prevention, rehabilitation and therapy, through body language (dance and
movement) in its representative, communicative and symbolic values. The APID –
Associazione Professionale Italiana Danzamovimento Terapia (www.apid.it) recognizes 12
schools across the country that share a specific training of 1200 hours and an ethical
code. The APID is part of the EADM T, the European Dance Movement Therapy
Association which represents the professional Associations present in Europe (Picture:
dimmicomedanzi.it)
In the workshop Elena Mignosi and Fernando Battista will offer an experience of contact
with ourselves and with others through the movement and through the exploration of
individual and group rhythmic modes. In a non-judgmental context, each participant will

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have the opportunity to find their own expressive modalities through movement and to
discover the richness of everyone’s contribution, each one with tsi own specifics and
differences.
Elena Mignosi is Professor in General and Social Pedagogy at the University of Palermo
where she teaches Theories, strategies and educational system
Fernando Battista dancer and choreographer, he is Ph.D in the Department of Education
Science (DSF) – Roma Tre University – and Vice President of Dance movement therapy
Professional Association.
Participants will be divided into two two-hour sessions. Place and specific session time will
be communicated as soon as possible.

Rainbow Theatre – “Ci metteremo la faccia”

Date – July 7
Partner – Libellula (Association for transgender rights)
Place – Teatro Lo Spazio, Via Locri 42-44
Time – 21:30 – 23:00

Written by Leila Daianis president of the Libellula Association and director of the Theater
Company. Directed by Mario Misuraca

“Ci metteremo la faccia” (“we will stand up for it”) is the story of a theater company that
brings on stage a show to save a theater in economic troubles. The show addresses a
common matter which is usually treated in a stereotyped and superficial way: a path of the
romantic feminine and masculine transsexuality that, besides attracting the audience,
wants to leave a powerful message (Picture: Associazione “Libellula” ).

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Erotic Salon – The locker room and other taboos
Interactive debate on sexuality with psychologists and professionals

Date – July 10
Partner – NUDI (Psycologist and sexuologist associazion for lgbti wellness)
Place – Caffè Letterario, Via Ostiense 95 (Piramide – Garbatella – Metro B)
Time – 19:00 – 21.30
Food and Drinks available

The Erotic Salon is an open dialog regarding personal experiences and a scientific look on
the world of sexuality.

We will talk about images, sensations, bodies and desires in a protected and safe
environment. Within the framework of EuroGames Rome 2019, the Erotic Salon will
deepen the relationship between body and sexuality, exploring the physical, carnal and
tangible dimensions of sex as well as the affective sphere, exposing the presence of these
aspects within the world of sport (Picture: A moment during the “Salotto Erotico” organized
by Gaycs and NUDI in Rome, season 2018-2019).

We will talk about the locker room as the space where all the individualities that make up a
team meet and share intimate moments.
How can the experience vary if we consider the locker room as a place where not only
heterosexual people pass by? How much discrimination and prejudice will a locker room
see if we declare it a free space? Sentences like “I’m rather not gonna undress in front of
him, he’s gay” or “Better wait ‘till she’s dressed up and ready to go, I don’t want her to see

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me naked”. As if every gay/lesbian/bisexual person should automatically be attracted to
pretty much anyone or as if every intersex/trans person should have separate locker
rooms.

We will take it from here: let’s go on a journey exploring the relationship between sports,
sexual orientation and gender identity.
Everyone is welcome, including non-LGBTI+ people!

Speakers:
Antonella Palmitesta – Psychologist and Sexologist
Deborah Peruzzi – Psychologist and Sexologist
Paola Biondi – Psychologist and Sexologist
Rosario Coco – Roma EuroGames Cultural Area

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