Daniela Lourdes Falanga, daughter of a mafia boss, changes her destiny to be a trans woman and one of Italy's leading LGTB + activists

GAYLES.TV.- Few people take such a brutal turn on their fate. He was expected to take over the 'family business»And was the male heir to a Mafia clan, but Daniela Lourdes Falanga I had other plans. He preferred to be a trans woman and one of the main activists LGBT + de Italy.

He had a tough childhood marked by the rigidity of the clan. His mother and grandmother «frightening»They strictly imposed masculine features on him. Education in a patriarchal crime syndicate really helped clarify her sense of gender identity. «I owed my total awareness of being a child also to the violent way that world influenced me«, Revealed in an interview. «He was even afraid to speak, since the tone of my voice did not fit his expectations", He said Phalanga. When he did not fulfill what was expected of her, she was mistreated. He came to consider the idea of committing suicide, since he also suffered bullying at school.

Life change

But his life took a turn: one night, he saw the transgender actress and singer Eva robin acting on television. It felt like an epiphany. In an instant, he visualized «the life they had denied me until then«.

At just 22 years old, she challenged her family's expectations and was elected president of the rights group LGTB + oldest of Italy. Daniela took advantage of the Coming Out Day in 2017 to make your testimony visible in Gay news: «I was the son of my contemporaneity that did not foresee my departure, overwhelmingly subversive and authentic, nor did it consider possible a family that rooted its principles in a mafia, sexist and heteropatriarchal authoritarianism. I was a woman, but I did not represent her and it made me a victim of morbid violence that devastated me because of the inability to understand how parents could deny a child and humiliate him with contempt and bruises.