Homosexuals Sons and Daughters: Why We Should Understand, Support and Love Them

This essay is divided into three parts. The first part consists of a theoretical overview: it is a reflection on the problem of parents’ ‘non-acceptance’ of homosexual sons and daughters through a targeted psycho-pedagogical analysis. The focus is not so much on the different sexual orientations considered by the LGBTQ+ community, but on the specific case history of homosexual orientation perceived by the parent or declared by the child. The second part focuses on the collection of statistically irrelevant and purely experiential data through research-stimulus of two classes of stu-dents at the University of Macerata. The research-stimulus, conducted by the administration – on a voluntary basis – of a questionnaire, makes it possible to activate a circuit of projective mediation which, starting from the requisite return of the results and simple classroom debate on the data collected, makes it possible to imagine and to see oneself in the cir-cumstances envisaged and to elaborate representations of oneself, with oneself and with others, should the circumstances turn out to be true. The third and last part reports on some of the countless intellectual stimuli that emerged during a long-distance interview with Dr Fiorenzo Gimelli, Honorary President of AGEDO (Association of Parents, Families and Friends of LGBTQ+ People), on the subject in question