Page bgrafiche di storia gay di Gvanni Dall'Orto: Benvenuto Celli(1500-1571)
Contents:
IS JON CELLI GAY?
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For Gallucci, Celli is th not a gay in ante lteram but a red-blood Renaissance man who was more ncerned wh the posn he took than wh the sex of the person he bedd (chapter 1).
The urt’s cisn do not, however, “prove” that Celli was “gay” or “queer, ” and so Gallucci vot part of this chapter to an examatn of recent attempts to make of Celli a “symbol of gay (or queer) sensibily” (4).
Of urse, that such vective agast Celli should e om Symonds—himself homosexual—suggts a queerns beyond the spe of this brief say. Tera Lretis, “Queer Theory: Lbian and Gay Sexuali.