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Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio

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Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio is an Italian politician, lawyer and journalist.

He served as Minister of Agriculture in the second cabinet of Giuliano Amato, and as Minister of Environment in the second cabinet of Romano Prodi. 

In 2000, he supported a controversial pride festival in Rome and came out as bi, declaring, “I’m against choosing just homosexuality or heterosexuality in a rigid, old-fashioned style… I choose absolute sexual liberty.”[1]