#aboutagap

Summer approaches and many donors (especially "veterans" of later age) won't be able to do it because of their pressure and the temperatures, and the blood banks will start to suffer to replenish their stocks.

On average, it takes five to ten minutes for a donation, it's a very quick and painless procedure but it might save a life. You will be going on with your random tuesday without even knowing it, but someone else out there who is going through the worst day of their life might make it our alive because you took that time out of your schedule even weeks before.

If you cannot for any reason donate, at least keep the option in mind and maybe propose it to others. All of us people who breath and to whom things might happen suddenly have an interest in ensuring that our doctors and nurses have a steady line of supplies for their jobs and one of those is spare blood.

I went to a Pride parade last week where not a single shop on the way had so much as one rainbow item on sale. Not a flag on sight. The windows on the path were all closed and we saw not a single person waving from the balconies. It means something, and it's something bad, and we all felt it by the time we made it to the square.

Italy has not made any significant progress in LGBTQ+ rights since 2016, back when we finally won civil unions. Lately, the rise of extremist right has been clearer and more blatant than ever. Vannacci, a soldier turned politician, has been making all sorts of statements leading up to this month.