Povia "Luca era gay" (Luca was gay) with translated lyrics
Video sent by svagel
Giuseppe Povia's song "Luca era gay" (Luca was gay) about an ex-gay change to heterosexual life. In this video all lyrics are translated into English.
Last night I had a song stuck in my head from Giuseppe Povia called Vorrei Avere il Becco, which he released in 2006 and performed at the San Remo Festival that same year. So this morning/ afternoon i decided to check on YouTube to see if I could find any other songs by this Italian artist. I ended up finding the song that I posted here. It was released this year and was the song that he chose to perform for San Remo 2009. Now because my Italian is not fluent i didn't entirely understand the song at first, so I started to do some research and found that this song had stirred up lots of controversy with the TBLGay community in Europe (which I find really surprising that they would speak up at all especially in a country like Italy where there is not a lot of openness on this issue).
I'm very glad that Povia had the nerve to write the song and release it! As you will see if you follow the link of the video with relatively well translated subtitles, that the man who he is singing about realizes that his homosexual tendencies do not stem from natural causes but from some traumatic experiences in his childhood. We have been fed for years that being homosexual is natural for some people and that it is okay to live that life style, because they can't help it! I totally agree that they can't help it, I don't think that anyone would willingly choose that life for them selves. From what I have seen from friends of mine who have entered into it, it is definitely a difficult one. The thing that I disagree with for the most part is that it happens naturally. The people who I have met or become friends with who live the gay lifestyle have always come from families that were broken, never from a particularly healthy family. Now I know some will argue that there are many people who come from broken families and are not gay, but the way I see it everyone deals with situations differently. I really do appreciate that Povia doesn't make it out to be some sort of illness, just that things happen people get hurt and that we sometimes go looking in the wrong places to deal with things.
I definitely think that there needs to be more education on all sides on this issue and much forgiveness to go around. The Church or maybe it is more appropriate to say that her members have not always treated this delicate issue in the most mercifully way possible. Our generation of Catholics must rise above the mediocrity of condemning those who we know who are gay and show them the love that they too deserve.
