Discrimination in Italy

I'm italian and I know that in Italy people aren't so open minded as they wanted to be or to seem like..

Where I live who is gay is discriminated, we are always treated in different way,like we are mentally ill and also we are always target of stupid jokes and words..

Nobody want to admit that people in Italy suffer of pain about us, they are afraid of what they don't know and they refuse to understand that everyone is egual..we are all the same..It doesn't matter with who I go to bed with if it's a man or a woman, the only thing that has to be important for the other is if I'm a good person or not..Isn't it right? Am I wrong?