Pictures taken from May Day Parades and Gay Pride Parades held in Italy

The May Day Parade is a march to protest against the widespread precarization of young workforce and the discrimination of immigrants in Europe. The motto of the protest is “no borders, no precarity, let's defeat the new inequality!” Participants in the march believe that precarity negatively affects incomes, housing, and mobility, provides discriminatory access to knowledge and skills and denies open and free information. Participants claim their right to unconditional basic income stability, an European living wage, full legalization for working immigrants, self-organizing and unionizing rights freed from repression, access to culture, knowledge, and right to cheap housing.

Gay Pride parades are street parades held by omoxessual people to protest against discrimination that gay people are nowadays forced to face in their normal living. Music, joy and colors always partecipate into the march as well.

Since 2005 to 2014, I participated in several editions of these parades in Milan, reporting the main contents of the march. Besides the political and sociologic intents of the protest, people live the march as an occasion to integrate themselves, feel free and celebrate together a traditional event.