Anna Lou Castoldi, daughter of Asia Argento and Morgan, has spoken out against the homophobic backlash she received after revealing on live TV that she has a girlfriend. Following her candid response to an unexpected question on Domenica In, she was subjected to a flood of online abuse.
After several days of hateful and insulting comments targeting her physical appearance, her parents and her identity, Anna Lou hit out at the attitudes fuelling the unremitting hatred she faced, comdemning the entrenched homophobia still present in Italy.
“Now I receive insults each second… to give you a little insight into the homophobia and discrimination still very present in this country, which is the thing that really hurts and disgusts me”.
“These people, who hide behind the self-diagnosis of normopathy, which doesn’t seem so normal to me… have attacked me because I spoke freely about my sexuality, not to show off, not to provoke, simply because for me it’s something like anything else”.
“We still believe that being gay means having a mental disorder. We still believe that having a mental disorder is humiliating. We still believe that we know someone only by their appearance, by their bar-room rumors.”
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