Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro on
Tuesday kicked back at Sir Elton John after the British musician
accused him of being "boorishly bigoted" in banning books about
homosexuality from the city's schools.
"Fora i schei" (Cough up the money)" Brugnaro tweeted in
Venetian dialect, saying "I challenge you to give real resources
to save Venice".
Sir Elton, who has a house in Venice, had said:
"Beautiful Venice is indeed sinking, but not as fast as the
boorishly bigoted Brugnaro".
The multi-award-winning artist, who has two children with
his partner David Furnish, used his Instagram page to slam
Brugnaro's "divisive" move alongside a picture of one of the
"Furnish-John family's favourite storybooks".
He continued: "It champions an all-inclusive world where
families come in all shapes, sizes and colours. And most
importantly, that families are about love. Our boys adore it.
And in the opposing corner we have Luigi Brugnaro, the extremely
silly looking mayor of Venice."
Brugnaro, elected at the end of May on an independent
centre-right ticket, has banned 49 books he said promoted gender
theory and gay marriage.
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