Italian police red-faced over gay slur manual

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By NewsdeskJuly 12, 2012 Article

Italian police apologised this week after they were forced to change a training manual that listed homosexuality as a "sexual deviance" in the same category as bestiality, incest and necrophilia.

A passage in the 585-page manual, which was being used internally in officer exams in the Carabinieri police force, read: “The main sexual deviances are homosexuality, exhibitionism, fetishism, sadism, incest and bestiality.”

The Carabinieri quickly apologised after an outcry from gay rights groups, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reports.

Photo By Kurt Löwenstein Educational Center International Team from Germany (qe07 (9)) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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Italian police apologised this week after they were forced to change a training manual that listed homosexuality as a "sexual deviance" in the same category as bestiality, incest and necrophilia.

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Italian police apologised this week after they were forced to change a training manual that listed homosexuality as a "sexual deviance" in the same category as bestiality, incest and necrophilia.

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