Calling someone gay to offend them is
not acceptable in today's society, Foreign Minister Luigi Di
Maio said Wednesday after revealing he had falsely been accused
of being homosexual while presenting his autobiography to
tabloid magazine Chi.
"I was struck by the fact that they thought they would defame me
by calling me homosexual, in any case I am straight," Di Maio,
former leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S),
told Chi.
"The idea of trying to denigrate me in this way is the child of
a cultural model that is unacceptable in 2021," he said.
Di Maio's autobiography, A Love Called Politics, came out last
week.
He has been criticised for writing it at the age of just 35.
On Tuesday Di Maio told La7 TV that it was also unfair to
denigrate him fro having had "humble" jobs like a snack and
drink vendor at Naples' San Paolo soccer stadium (now Diego
Armando Maradona Stadium).
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