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THE SAD BUT TE STORY OF SAN DOMO, FASCIST ITALY’S ISLAND FOR ‘IMMORAL’ GAY MEN
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From 1919 to 1945, fascist lear Beno Msoli transformed Italy om a mocracy to a totalarian dictatorship by g state police to vlently supprs all unsirable elements, cludg gay men.
Towards this end, 1938, the mayor of Catania, Sicily, cid to stop the “spreadg of generatn” by roundg up gay men and shippg them off to San Domo, an island nearly 500 away. The island has sce bee known as Msoli’s gay island. Although homosexualy wasn’t actually illegal durg the time of Msoli’s le, was seen as a mental disorr ntradictg fascist Italy’s ial of the “new man, ” a virile man who embodied strict ary behavr.
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As such, fascist ernment lears sought to intify and supprs gay men through spi gay hangouts and through a form of forced rince known as nfo (or nfement). So, that same year, the mayor and lol police round up 45 gay lol men and ported them to San Domo, an island the Adriatic Sea’s Isole Tremi archipelago, two hours by ferry om Italy’s south-central ast. San Domo, Msoli’s gay island.