2023 Like a Virg: gay life Venice om the Middle Ag to prent days

Contents:

• VENICE GAY TRAVEL GUI & MAP 2023
• JT HOW GAY IS "DEATH VENICE"?
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• THE BEST CY OF VENICE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CY OF VENICE
• SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI
• VENICE'S MAYOR WANTS TO BAN THE GAY PRI PARA — BUT SAYS HE'S NOT HOMOPHOBIC
• LIKE A VIRG: GAY LIFE VENICE OM THE MIDDLE AG TO PRENT DAYS
• GAY VENICE
• BOOK BAN VENICE IGN A GAY RIGHTS BATTLE

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Alsandro Grassani for The New York TimJune 20, 2018VENICE — On a recent night on the island of Giuc, a water taxi ri across the lagoon om the many cktail parti markg the openg of the Archecture Biennale here, the curators of a scrappy paviln were focg on cisg of a ls ntil the ma space of the so-lled Cisg Paviln — an exhibn voted to the plac and practic of sual sex — sheets of plywood were pierced by a profn of glory hol, a hallmark of anonymo gay hookups. People face endurg vlence and opprsn around the world, not to mentn difficulti gettg a gay weddg ke ma the Uned Stat.

After his ath, Mann’s diari have revealed the thor’s personal stggl referrg homosexualy and pedophilia, which have evably reflected his proment novella, Death Venice. Summed up, all rerds which are ially extracted om Thomas Mann diari, a sensatn Germany durg the late 1970’s, have affirmed the fn of close homo-eroticism l Mann’s work. This is a book about Italy wrten by a German, a book about homosexual love wrten by a married man who fathered six children, a book about a man who bas himself and embrac his own ath wrten by a man who lived to age 80 as the very embodiment of bourgeois lerary rpectabily.

There n be no qutn, however, that "Death Venice" is a book about homosexual passn -- the ey of some gay lerary scholars and queer-studi theorists, has virtually bee the book about homosexual passn -- and that fact has affected s receptn all along. Gay rears were unrstandably enraged by scholarly efforts to atheticize the queerns out of "Death Venice, " and the post-Stonewall amic revolutn has produced a valuable rrective.

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The fact that "Death Venice" is based to some gree on an event om Mann's life, and even the fact that Mann himself may have been homosexual or bisexual, do not mean that the book is only about those thgs, or that amounts to no more than an anguished Frdian nfsn thly ated wh imagatn. At the risk of soundg like a middlebrow hetero liberal, let me sist that would be unfortunate if future generatns read "Death Venice" as a "paradigmatic master-text of homosexual eroticism, " the phrase of cric and novelist Gilbert Adair.

If anythg, the homoerotic ponent of the story -- and Mann's tortured relatnship to his botted protagonist -- bee clearer than ever Michael Henry Heim's new translatn of "Death Venice.

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His troductn is genial but substantial, and while he's too much of a gentleman to mentn , he mt be aware that his own work bears almost no remblance to Mann's and that he's been ved for one reason only -- he's the bt-known gay novelist of the moment and "Death Venice" is now d as a gay book. Aschenbach's journey om reprsed northern Europe to the fecund South is var thgs: a voyage om nscns to the Frdian pths, om Apollonian disciple to Dnysian hedonism, om heterosexual "normalcy" to homosexual "viance, " om daily life to the realm of classil mythology. I am not so much veighg agast Gilbert Adair's homoerotic master-text analysis -- which rri more weight today than Mann's ntentn that the story was prcipally about the problem of "the artist's digny" -- as I am suggtg that the lastg power of any work as nsely wrought as "Death Venice" n never be summarized by a sgle ia.

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Jon explas his fe article for glbtq, an onle encyclopedia of gay culture, is now clear that the thor wrtled wh homoerotic feelgs all his life and found much of his creative impulse them, even as he thought them stctive and dangero. For every rear the qutn of whether Aschenbach's homosexual passn is at the root of his dilemma, or is yet another of Mann's symbolic keys, will appear a different light -- as will the qutn of whether the Venice he viss is a real place or a Stygian landspe of ath.

Acrdg to Alan Bray’s book, Homosexualy Renaissance England, “the morn image of ‘the homosexual’ nnot be applied to the early morn perd, when homosexual behavr was viewed terms of the sexual act and not an dividual's broar inty. This difference between homosexualy as a “sexual act” and an “inty” prov why, durg Renaissance England, this theme Shakpeare’s play was almost visible. The actual merchant of Venice, Anton, displays this homosexual inty that might only be regnizable to the morn day rear.

Through a close readg of a speech given by Anton, one n beg to unrstand the signifince of Shakpeare’s word choice and how plays to this ia of homosexualy. For Anton to e off as beg homosexual or if our morn general fn of homosexualy has fluenced how we view Anton. This analysis is able to prove why Shakpeare chose the word “ love” over any other word orr to voke a certa homosexual feelg regardg Anton and Bassan’s relatnship.

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Through this art of placg them that Shakpeare , is easy to see how homosexualy was tend to be placed as an unrlyg theme of The Merchant of Venice.

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Prs, this say, the thorAnalyz how the theme of homosexualy shakpeare's the merchant of venice was hidn om morn rears. Analyz how shakpeare chose the word "love" over any other word to voke a certa homosexual feelg regardg anton and bassan's relatnship.

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Homosexualy, is mataed, is simply herent the human reproductive strategy; an optn which evolved durg the lns of years of human evolutn as a solutn for problems herent a polygynic, yet social speci livg relatively small groups: homosexualy dimish tra-male petn on the 'reproductive market'.

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Instead, due to 'cultural', often relig prejudic, homosexuals nowadays are treated as belongg to an 'out-group', and discrimated agast acrdgly.

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LGBTQIA+ travelers are those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (a more clive LGBT ialism), pl queer or qutng, tersex or asexual dividuals, as well as those who intify beyond the monly ed sexualy and genr exprsns.