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GAY VENICE
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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? 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.
Venice beme attractive to wealthy gay and bisexual men om elsewhere Europe who faced persecutn their home untri. “The factors ntributed to a lively homosexual subculture the centre of the cy, which was pretty unique, ” she explas. “The homosexual subculture was closely lked to the culture of female prostutn, and the two tradns went hand hand.
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The rise of Fascism Italy, om around the first quarter of the 20th century until 1943, “drastilly” changed life for gay and bisexual men, acrdg to Beclossi.