Biography of Paola Concia

Rights to the goal

July 4, 1963
Anna Paola Concia was born in Avezzano (L'Aquila) on 4 July 1963. His first real passion is sports: studying at the Isef of L'Aquila and began working as a physical education teacher and tennis instructor. The passion for sports goes that nascent for politics. Paola begins to get addicted to this new world in the late 1980s, when he began his militant activities within the PCI. In this same period he married, divorced in 1992 after the death of his mother.
At the same time he moved to the capital, where he continues to work substantially by sport, although, at the same time, he begins to make his first experiences in the political-institutional. In 1994 he works at the Chamber as Parliamentary Assistant Franca Chiaromonte, and in 1996 became a consultant of the Ministry of equal opportunities together with Congresswoman PD Anna Finocchiaro. To Paola tanning and his partner you must own the development of the concept of the Ministry of equal opportunities, non-existent before. In 1998 became a consultant for sports with Giovanna Melandri and founder of Emily, which aims to promote greater participation of women in the public life of the country.
Paola Concia alterna professional commitments related to its institutional commitments are managers: after graduating in physical education at the University of L'Aquila in 2001, organizes many of the issues of international tennis Romans, and from 2006 to 2009, he works as a manager with the Sports Agency President of the Lazio region. At the same time actively participates in activities of the Association D52 which, like Emily, Association fights for a consistent increase of female participation in the workforce and public life in General. In 2002 declaring publicly his homosexuality and begins to fight in the political arena for the recognition of gay rights, first among the ranks of the Democrats of the left and then between those of the Democratic Party. Paola Concia is elected in Puglia with the Democratic Party in 2008, and in the same year, together with the Honourable Barbara Pollastrini and young Cuperio presented in Parliament the law: "measures against the persecution and discrimination and violence caused by sexual orientation or gender identity."
The issues for which it is fighting and that interest, apart from the legal order for the offences of homophobia are: equality of same-sex marriage that heterosexual, the determination of a legal arrangement for same-sex couples fully equivalent to that of heterosexual couples and the law on Pacs (civil Pact of solidarity: a form of Civil Union initially approved in France in 1999-PActe Civil de Solidarité). In May 2011 Paola Concia reappear the same Bill already introduced in 2008 with a further aggravating circumstance for offences with homophobic motive. This time his proposal also enjoys the support of the Minister for equal opportunities Mara Carfagna, who contributed to the drafting of the law. The Commission rejects the proposal again and Paola Concia decides to resign from the Rapporteur of this proposal.
During the same period, the Democratic Party announced that still bring the proposal in Parliament. Unfortunately, in this case the law is not approved to vote against the center-right majority. Also in 2011 joins civilly married his partner, the German criminologist Ricarda Trautmann: the ceremony takes place in Frankfurt in the presence of a small group of friends and relatives. To Paola Concia is the first openly gay Italian parliamentary's wedding. Among other things the wife Ricarda has also officially declared that they want to adopt the surname of the spouse. In addition to bringing forward the difficult battle in favor of the recognition of the rights of homosexuals, the politics of Abruzzo continues to deal with sport: Agensport is President of Lazio and Puglia region is in charge of the sport of PD with particular attention to youth sports. In may 2012 gave an interview to the site Biografieonline Culture channel that can be read at the following link: interview with Anna Paola Concia (interview of Alexander Galano).
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