Italy's gay police and military officers are making a big push in the fight against homophobia and prejudices in their line of work.
Some of the gays in uniform have set up a new group, Polis Aperta, to help combat discrimination from their fellow officers, enabling more to come out and not keep their sexual orientation a secret.
The founding meeting for the new organisation will be held later in September in the city of Bologna, and the groups president Nicola Cicchitti said, '"We're coming out against creeping discrimination."
''We're coming out against creeping discrimination,'' said Nicola Cicchitti, president of the new group.
Italy is quite a socially conservative nation where the subject of homosexuality is still quite taboo and gay men are often not comfortable to even come out to their families.
A gay rights group, The Mario Mieli Association, said that the new push by gay police and military officers "will move Italy closer to the rest of Europe and break with the absurd macho taboos which still pervade the armed forces."
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