Venice's Mayor Wants to Ban the Gay Pri Para — But Says He's Not Homophobic

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.

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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. 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.

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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. 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.

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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. 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. 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. 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.

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Homosexualy is much more accepted the north than the south; however, tourist hotspots, such as Capri and Taorma Sicily, are well-known as LGBT-iendly. The neighborhood of Porta Venezia is regnized as the heart of Milan’s queer culture, wh Lec Street and San Marti Street havg many optns for gay-iendly bars and clubs, cludg Lecilano.

Lars Engle wr a particularly tertg say lled, “Thrift is Blsg”: Exchange and Explanatn In The Merchant of Venice, where he expos a woman who tak advantage of homosexual sir to protect her fancial endowment and prove herself as the pridg dividual her marriage. He then referenc his ‘balance sheet of erotic obligatn’ to show that effect, Bassiano has asked for Anton’s permissn to pursue Portia, patg her as an stance of ‘male homosocial sire. ” (Engle 26) By self, this analysis of the plot is key revealg and nvcg any rears of the homoerotic sire Anton has for Bassiano, but is also important settg up the rt of Engle’s say which scrib Portia as the pridg figure a marriage that uld be unrstood as a poor lord takg advantage of a rich heirs.

She disvers the possible homosocial aspect of her marriage and do what she needs to orr to avoid beg the object of that exchange, while attemptg to protect her tate. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

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Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.