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GAY VENICE
* venice gay pride *
Once a cy where gay and bisexual men were burned at the stake, transformed to a statn for queer people om all over Europe; but what is the cy’s LGBTQ scene like today?
VENICE GAY TRAVEL GUI & MAP 2023
Back the Middle Ag, the practice of sodomy by gay or bisexual men was emed a s, and punished heavily by the Catholic Church.
However, spe the thori’ bt efforts, by the 16th century there was a thrivg unrground gay scene the cy. Legend has that gay and bisexual men even exploed a loophole the cy’s laws durg the Carnival of Venice – a hedonistic few weeks of revelry and le-breakg, Carnival was a time when some laws were emed void if the perpetrator was wearg a mask. Venice’s proment male prostutn scene creased until s peak durg the 18th and 19th centuri, which overlapped wh the relatively early crimalisatn of homosexualy across Italy 1889 followg the adoptn of the Zanarlli Penal Co.