Gaily Tours & Excursns Italy: Gay Milan | Ignas Tour LGBT

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• THE 5 BEST MILAN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MILAN
• MILAN GAY DISTRICT
• MILAN'S VIBRANT GAY, FRIENDLY, & GAY-FRIENDLY SCENE
• THE 5 BEST MILAN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MILAN
• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS LAZZARETTO (MILAN)GAY CLUBS & BARS LAZZARETTO
• MILAN GAY RTRANTS
• FROM TABOO TO MASTREAM: HOW MILAN'S LGBTQ COMMUNY FOUND ITSELF THROUGH MIC THE GLTER FAY AT GIARDI PUBBLICI INDRO MONTANELLI, MILAN | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP SARA KFMAN 18 MAY 2020 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT DANCE CLUBS AND THE FASHN DTRY ARE SOME OF THE MA – AND PERHAPS LIMED – FORMS OF EXPRSN FOR MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY MILAN. FABRIZ FERRI LOOKS TO PRERVE THE UNTERCULTURAL ATMOSPHERE AND MIC OF THE PAST, WHILE BUILDG A MORE EXPANSIVE AND CLIVE FUTURE AT HIS WEEKLY LGBTQ SOIRéE, KNOWN AS GLTER. VIEW ALL TRIPS IN A MASSIVE UNRGROUND ROOM MILAN, PATED MOSTLY BLACK, FOG CURLS UP TOWARDS THE CEILG AND THE POUNDG BASS SEEMS TO TRAVEL THROUGH THE FLOOR AND UP THROUGH THE FEET OF A CROWD OF DANCERS. SOMEONE WALKS BY WH A WELL-GROOMED MOTACHE, RED HIGH HEELS AND AMPLE AMOUNTS OF SPARKLE – APPROPRIATELY SO, SCE THIS CLUB IS HOSTG GLTER, AN EVENT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY MILAN. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP ICELAND MEXI GREECE CROATIA SOUTH AI MOROC THAILAND EGYPT INDIA ECUADOR SPA BALI JAPAN TURKEY FABRIZ FERRI, -FOUNR AND ART DIRECTOR OF GLTER, MILAN | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP FABRIZ FERRI, EDOR--CHIEF OF THE TERNATNAL PUBLITN HUNTER FASHN MAGAZE, LNCHED GLTER 1999 TOGETHER WH GIEPPE MAGISTRO AND SOME IENDS, RPONDG TO A LACK OF ALTERNATIVE AND UNTERCULTURE NIGHTCLUBS FOR THE QUEER MUNY. “WE WERE A GROUP OF IENDS WHO LIKED DIE ROCK MIC AND BACK THEN, THERE WEREN’T ANY GAY CLUBS PLAYG ,” HE SAYS.“IT WAS NSIRED ‘MIC FOR HETEROSEXUALS’. BUT MIC DON’T HAVE A GENR OR A SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND WE HAD NO IA WHERE TO GO DANCG.” THE EVENT, WHICH CHANGED VENU OVER THE YEARS, STANTLY DREW LIKE-MD PEOPLE AND THOSE WH SIAR MIC TAST. LEFT: GIADA J’ADORE, GLZ GIRLZ @WEIRD_GIADA. RIGHT: TERRY LA BLOW, GLZ GIRLZ @TERRYBLOW_ | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP MISTRS MIRAGE, GLZ GIRLZ @_MIRAGS_ | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP THE ’90S ATMOSPHERE THAT FIRST SHAPED THIS UNTERCULTURE SCENE WAS PARTIALLY FLUENCED BY AN EARLIER TIME OF MARGALISATN FOR THE GAY MUNY. WHAT N ARGUABLY BE SCRIBED AS MILAN’S FIRST LGBTQ MOVEMENT BEGAN WH A GROUP OF SQUATTERS WHO 1976 TOOK UP RINCE A 15TH-CENTURY PALAZZO NEAR THE DUOMO. THE GROUP WAS PRISED OF SOCIAL MORI AND BOUNDARY-PHG CREATIV SEARCHG FOR A SPACE WHERE THEY ULD EXPRS THEMSELV EELY. IT WAS A PLACE OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE, EMBODYG THE REVOLUTNARY SPIR OF THE AND FOSTERG A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO WERE POLILLY ACTIVE AND VOLVED TERNATNAL MPAIGNS FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS. FROM THE ’70S TO THE 2010S THE MUNY BEME MORE ACCEPTED AND WAS BROUGHT TO THE MASTREAM. THEN, 2014, RUPL’S DRAG RACE WAS BOUGHT BY NETFLIX – WH SUBTL ITALIAN. FERRI C THIS AS AN IMPORTANT CULTURAL SHIFT – BEE BEME ACCSIBLE TO ALL. FERRI AND MAGISTRO, THE -FOUNRS OF GLTER, E OM THE FASHN DTRY, SO THEY WANT TO CREATE SOMETHG THAT MIRRORS THE TIM. AS THE YEARS WENT BY AND THE SOCIAL SCENE CHANGED, GLTER NATURALLY CHANGED WH , ALTHOUGH STILL MATAS S ROCK ‘N’ ROLL DNA AND PUNK ATTU. THE PARTY’S DIE-ROCK SOUL IS NOW ENRICHED BY ALL SORTS OF NEW MIL ENTRI, RANGG OM LADY GAGA TO ST VCENT, GRIM TO CHARLI XCX – ARTISTS WHO BE THEIR MIC WH DISTCTIVE ATHETICS AND A SOCPOLIL STANCE. “WE TRY TO AVOID BEG OVERLY POLIL BUT THERE’S ALWAYS AN IMPLIC MSAGE,” SAYS FERRI. “SOMETIM ’S EASIER TO NVEY A MSAGE WH A CLUB THAN WH A NFERENCE ROOM.” EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP MEMBERS OF THE GLTER FAY AT RED CAFÉ @REDFEANO | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP GLTER’S PERFORMERS – THE FAMED GLZ GIRLZ – ARE A GROUP OF WOMEN, MEN, TRANSGENR AND NON-BARY PEOPLE. THEIR SHOW FORMAT AIMS TO CREATE THARSIS, TAPULTG THE CROWD TO ANOTHER DIMENSN AS PART OF SOMETHG UNIQUE. THE VISUAL NTENT (CLUDG VIOS, PROJECTNS AND LIVE ACTS) ARE STRIKG, WH BOUNDARY-PHG PERFORMANC. “THERE ARE STILL THGS TODAY WHICH ANNOY THE MASS, THGS THAT CREATE DISTURBANCE, AND THE ARE EXACTLY THE KD OF NTENT I WANT FOR GLTER,” FERRI EXPLAS. “IF THEY HAVE THE POWER TO DISTURB, MEANS THAT THEY SHOULD BE VTIGATED.” MYSS KETA, AN ITALIAN SGER AND A PERFORMER OF UNKNOWN INTY WHO ALWAYS HIS HER FACE BEHD VEILS AND MASKS, DID HER FIRST SHOW AT GLTER 2013. SHE HAS ALWAYS PUBLICLY ADVOTED FOR THE GAY MUNY, WHOSE SUPPORT ALLOWED HER TO REACH AN TERNATNAL DIENCE. AS FERRI EXPLAS, “SHE MIX ‘TRASHY’ NTENT WH POWERFUL POLIL MSAG AND WORKS, BEE ’S THENTIC.” RECENTLY, DURG A SHOW, MYSS KETA DID A PARODY OF RIGHT-WG POLICIAN GRGIA MELONI’S SPEECH AGAST ADOPTN BY SAME-SEX PARENTS. THE VIO OF THE SHOW WENT VIRAL OVERNIGHT. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. LEFT: FABRIZ FERRI. RIGHT: THE NOTOR MARIANTONIETTA, GLZ GIRLZ @MARYNOTOR | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP MYSS KETA OM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF PORTA VENEZIA, MILAN’S GAY NEIGHBOURHOOD PAR EXCELLENCE. DURG PRI WEEK 2019, THE METRO STOP OF PORTA VENEZIA WAS RATED WH RABOW MURALS. THE MAYOR CID TO LEAVE THEM THERE PERMANENTLY AS A TRIBUTE TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD’S INTY. HERE YOU N FD SEVERAL GAY BARS CLUDG MONO, PERHAPS THE FIRST GAY BAR MILAN TO OPEN ON A BIG STREET STEAD OF A SECLUD ALLEY, WHERE PEOPLE ULD SIMPLY ENTER OM THE ONT DOOR STEAD OF HAVG TO KNOCK OR RG DOORBELLS. AFTER THE MONO ME THE LECILANO AND, MORE RECENTLY, POP, A FEMIST AND FEME BAR. THE CROSSROAD BETWEEN VIA LEC AND VIA PANFILO CASTALDI – THE MA STREETS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WHERE YOU N FD MOST OF THE BARS AND RTRANTS – IS TODAY A CELEBRATED MEETG POT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY. “IT’S WARM AND WELG,” SAYS FERRI. “IT’S ALSO NICE FOR NEWERS AND TOURISTS WHO WANT TO EXPERIENCE THE LOL SCENE.” THE UP AND G AREA KNOWN AS NOLO IS QUICKLY BEG THE CY’S NEXT LGBTQ NEIGHBOURHOOD. THERE ARE SEVERAL GAY BARS AND RTRANTS AROUND THE PNEER NOLOSO. MILAN PRIS SELF ON BEG A GAY-IENDLY CY, PECIALLY PARED TO THE RT OF ITALY. IT HOSTS THE LARGT PRI THE UNTRY AND WEL OPENLY GAY MEN S FASHN DTRY. BUT THE LS, BS, TS AND QS WORKG OTHER DTRI STILL FACE DISCRIMATN AND FERRI BELIEV THE CY STILL HAS A WAY TO GO. “IF YOU WORK FASHN YOU N EASILY SAY YOU’RE GAY. BUT IF, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU WORK A BANK, THERE IS STILL THE ‘DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL’ LE,” HE SAYS. THOUGH CULTURAL STUTNS LIKE THE WELL-KNOWN BOOKSHOP ANTIGONE AND GAY CEMA FTIVAL MIX HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THE MILANE LGBTQ MUNY OVER THE YEARS. LOL QUEER CULTURE MILAN IS MOSTLY EXPRSED THROUGH BARS AND PARTI, YET THE SLOW SHIFT OVER THE YEARS OM TABOO TO MASTREAM HAS LED TO A MORE HOPEFUL YOUNGER GENERATN. “BEG BORN LS HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC TIM, KIDS WHO ARE NOW 18 OR 20 ARE MORE OL ABOUT SHOWG THEIR HOMOSEXUALY,” SAYS FERRI. “THIS, TOGETHER WH THE MORE TERNATNAL APPEAL OF THE CY, IS CERTALY HELPG.” BRIGTE STALLONE, GLZ GIRLZ @BRIGTELASVAMPA | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP HERE ARE SOME OTHER LGBTQ EVENTS AND CLUBS MILAN BIS GLTER: ESNDALO BAR, ITALIAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT ESNDALO IS A FUN AND RMAL PARTY HELD AT BAR Q21 PLASTIC NIGHTCLUB, COCKTAILS SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT PLASTIC HAS BEEN A MILAN STUTN SCE S CEPTN 1980. IN S HEYDAY THE CLIENTELE CLUD MADONNA, ELTON JOHN, ANDY WARHOL, FREDDIE MERCURY AND BCE SPRGSTEEN. THE CLUB HAS ALWAYS DRAWN A QUEER CROWD. LA BOUM BAR, ITALIAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT LA BOUM IS AN LGBTQ EVENT THAT TAK PLACE EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT. BLAN BAR, ITALIAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT BLAN IS A FASHNABLE BAR WHERE YOU’LL BE ABLE TO SPEND YOUR TIME CELEBRY SPOTTG – STRAIGHTS AND GAYS ALIKE. THE GLTER FAY THE INDRO MONTANELLI PUBLIC GARNS, MILAN | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
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THE 5 BEST MILAN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MILAN

One of the world's most fashnable ci, Milan has much to offer to gay travelers. Of the world's most fashnable ci, Milan has much to offer to gay travelers.

MILAN GAY DISTRICT

More importantly, Milan is the gay pal of Italy.

There are gay bars and clubs Milan sttered all over the cy, wh no “village” as such. You might fd a certa ncentratn next to the Central Statn, the Porta Venezia area or on the so-lled “Gay Street”: the Via Sammarti hosts some gay plac close to each other but don’t expect to be the vibrant center of Gay Milan’s nightlife.

MILAN'S VIBRANT GAY, FRIENDLY, & GAY-FRIENDLY SCENE

Gay Milan, a fashn paradise. Gay Milan also hosts gay pri every year mid-to-late June, followed by the Gay & Lbian Film Ftival. Misterb&b is here wh gay-iendly hosts, ready to accept and wele you!

Milan's Vibrant Gay, Friendly, & Gay-Friendly Scene. Cosmopolan, creative, and dramatic, is no wonr that Milan is home to the largt and most glamoro gay scene Italy.

Here you will fd that the urbane gay muny of divas and fashnistas liv alongsi the raw unrground sub-culture of artsy and alternative typ, wh plenty of space left over for the unapologetilly there is cidly a clter of outright gay bars and small clubs the Porta Venezia district, many venu around town tout themselv as gay-iendly tablishments that attach neher expectatns nor lims to the crowds that flow through their doors.

THE 5 BEST MILAN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MILAN

There is also no shortage of gay-themed events schled at var lol throughout the cy, which are guaranteed to attract a diverse set of party-goers. For all s ference to the 'old-fashned' way of dog thgs, Italy's gay culture has even taken the digal leap recent years, makg e of popular apps such as Grdr and Tr to tablish ntact and arrange a accs to a slew of gay events and hotspots, register for a membership rd wh Arcigay (), Italy's first and largt natnal gay anizatn. Lecilano was born on June 2014 and, very soon, has bee one of the most important gay iendy clubs Milan, Porta Venezia.

Even if ’s a ltle gay bar, has a lot to offer: om qualy cktails to good and low-st buffet (wh large choic for vegans and vegetarians too) and great live mic experienc! Lecilano is both cktail bar and rtrant and ’s, maybe, the most ternatnal gay place Milan. It is no surprise that Milan is one of the most clive and gay-iendly ci Italy.

000, and a signifint crease is expected for 2020 sce Milan is gog to host the 37th edn of the annual IGLTA (Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn) nventn.

TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS LAZZARETTO (MILAN)GAY CLUBS & BARS LAZZARETTO

From 27 to 29 June Porta Venezia will be transformed to the Pri Square, a ltle gay village the iendlit district of the cy.

Gay-iendly Bars and Clubs Milan not to Miss.

Opened 2014, Lecilano – un bu di bar is a real pot of attractn for the gay muny Milan. Mono Bar is a gay-iendly cktail bar wh an ternatnal allure, the ial place for people rejectg labels.

MILAN GAY RTRANTS

Let’s move to northern Loreto to disver NoLoSo, equented by a gay clientele but not only, a place for eatg and drkg well, acrdg to the philosophy of s owner Gianni Mar.

“At Toilet, we are all equal” is the proud slogan of this gay club Milan.

FROM TABOO TO MASTREAM: HOW MILAN'S LGBTQ COMMUNY FOUND ITSELF THROUGH MIC THE GLTER FAY AT GIARDI PUBBLICI INDRO MONTANELLI, MILAN | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP SARA KFMAN 18 MAY 2020 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT DANCE CLUBS AND THE FASHN DTRY ARE SOME OF THE MA – AND PERHAPS LIMED – FORMS OF EXPRSN FOR MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY MILAN. FABRIZ FERRI LOOKS TO PRERVE THE UNTERCULTURAL ATMOSPHERE AND MIC OF THE PAST, WHILE BUILDG A MORE EXPANSIVE AND CLIVE FUTURE AT HIS WEEKLY LGBTQ SOIRéE, KNOWN AS GLTER. VIEW ALL TRIPS IN A MASSIVE UNRGROUND ROOM MILAN, PATED MOSTLY BLACK, FOG CURLS UP TOWARDS THE CEILG AND THE POUNDG BASS SEEMS TO TRAVEL THROUGH THE FLOOR AND UP THROUGH THE FEET OF A CROWD OF DANCERS. SOMEONE WALKS BY WH A WELL-GROOMED MOTACHE, RED HIGH HEELS AND AMPLE AMOUNTS OF SPARKLE – APPROPRIATELY SO, SCE THIS CLUB IS HOSTG GLTER, AN EVENT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY MILAN. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP ICELAND MEXI GREECE CROATIA SOUTH AI MOROC THAILAND EGYPT INDIA ECUADOR SPA BALI JAPAN TURKEY FABRIZ FERRI, -FOUNR AND ART DIRECTOR OF GLTER, MILAN | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP FABRIZ FERRI, EDOR--CHIEF OF THE TERNATNAL PUBLITN HUNTER FASHN MAGAZE, LNCHED GLTER 1999 TOGETHER WH GIEPPE MAGISTRO AND SOME IENDS, RPONDG TO A LACK OF ALTERNATIVE AND UNTERCULTURE NIGHTCLUBS FOR THE QUEER MUNY. “WE WERE A GROUP OF IENDS WHO LIKED DIE ROCK MIC AND BACK THEN, THERE WEREN’T ANY GAY CLUBS PLAYG ,” HE SAYS.“IT WAS NSIRED ‘MIC FOR HETEROSEXUALS’. BUT MIC DON’T HAVE A GENR OR A SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND WE HAD NO IA WHERE TO GO DANCG.” THE EVENT, WHICH CHANGED VENU OVER THE YEARS, STANTLY DREW LIKE-MD PEOPLE AND THOSE WH SIAR MIC TAST. LEFT: GIADA J’ADORE, GLZ GIRLZ @WEIRD_GIADA. RIGHT: TERRY LA BLOW, GLZ GIRLZ @TERRYBLOW_ | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP MISTRS MIRAGE, GLZ GIRLZ @_MIRAGS_ | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP THE ’90S ATMOSPHERE THAT FIRST SHAPED THIS UNTERCULTURE SCENE WAS PARTIALLY FLUENCED BY AN EARLIER TIME OF MARGALISATN FOR THE GAY MUNY. WHAT N ARGUABLY BE SCRIBED AS MILAN’S FIRST LGBTQ MOVEMENT BEGAN WH A GROUP OF SQUATTERS WHO 1976 TOOK UP RINCE A 15TH-CENTURY PALAZZO NEAR THE DUOMO. THE GROUP WAS PRISED OF SOCIAL MORI AND BOUNDARY-PHG CREATIV SEARCHG FOR A SPACE WHERE THEY ULD EXPRS THEMSELV EELY. IT WAS A PLACE OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE, EMBODYG THE REVOLUTNARY SPIR OF THE AND FOSTERG A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO WERE POLILLY ACTIVE AND VOLVED TERNATNAL MPAIGNS FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS. FROM THE ’70S TO THE 2010S THE MUNY BEME MORE ACCEPTED AND WAS BROUGHT TO THE MASTREAM. THEN, 2014, RUPL’S DRAG RACE WAS BOUGHT BY NETFLIX – WH SUBTL ITALIAN. FERRI C THIS AS AN IMPORTANT CULTURAL SHIFT – BEE BEME ACCSIBLE TO ALL. FERRI AND MAGISTRO, THE -FOUNRS OF GLTER, E OM THE FASHN DTRY, SO THEY WANT TO CREATE SOMETHG THAT MIRRORS THE TIM. AS THE YEARS WENT BY AND THE SOCIAL SCENE CHANGED, GLTER NATURALLY CHANGED WH , ALTHOUGH STILL MATAS S ROCK ‘N’ ROLL DNA AND PUNK ATTU. THE PARTY’S DIE-ROCK SOUL IS NOW ENRICHED BY ALL SORTS OF NEW MIL ENTRI, RANGG OM LADY GAGA TO ST VCENT, GRIM TO CHARLI XCX – ARTISTS WHO BE THEIR MIC WH DISTCTIVE ATHETICS AND A SOCPOLIL STANCE. “WE TRY TO AVOID BEG OVERLY POLIL BUT THERE’S ALWAYS AN IMPLIC MSAGE,” SAYS FERRI. “SOMETIM ’S EASIER TO NVEY A MSAGE WH A CLUB THAN WH A NFERENCE ROOM.” EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP MEMBERS OF THE GLTER FAY AT RED CAFÉ @REDFEANO | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP GLTER’S PERFORMERS – THE FAMED GLZ GIRLZ – ARE A GROUP OF WOMEN, MEN, TRANSGENR AND NON-BARY PEOPLE. THEIR SHOW FORMAT AIMS TO CREATE THARSIS, TAPULTG THE CROWD TO ANOTHER DIMENSN AS PART OF SOMETHG UNIQUE. THE VISUAL NTENT (CLUDG VIOS, PROJECTNS AND LIVE ACTS) ARE STRIKG, WH BOUNDARY-PHG PERFORMANC. “THERE ARE STILL THGS TODAY WHICH ANNOY THE MASS, THGS THAT CREATE DISTURBANCE, AND THE ARE EXACTLY THE KD OF NTENT I WANT FOR GLTER,” FERRI EXPLAS. “IF THEY HAVE THE POWER TO DISTURB, MEANS THAT THEY SHOULD BE VTIGATED.” MYSS KETA, AN ITALIAN SGER AND A PERFORMER OF UNKNOWN INTY WHO ALWAYS HIS HER FACE BEHD VEILS AND MASKS, DID HER FIRST SHOW AT GLTER 2013. SHE HAS ALWAYS PUBLICLY ADVOTED FOR THE GAY MUNY, WHOSE SUPPORT ALLOWED HER TO REACH AN TERNATNAL DIENCE. AS FERRI EXPLAS, “SHE MIX ‘TRASHY’ NTENT WH POWERFUL POLIL MSAG AND WORKS, BEE ’S THENTIC.” RECENTLY, DURG A SHOW, MYSS KETA DID A PARODY OF RIGHT-WG POLICIAN GRGIA MELONI’S SPEECH AGAST ADOPTN BY SAME-SEX PARENTS. THE VIO OF THE SHOW WENT VIRAL OVERNIGHT. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. LEFT: FABRIZ FERRI. RIGHT: THE NOTOR MARIANTONIETTA, GLZ GIRLZ @MARYNOTOR | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP MYSS KETA OM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF PORTA VENEZIA, MILAN’S GAY NEIGHBOURHOOD PAR EXCELLENCE. DURG PRI WEEK 2019, THE METRO STOP OF PORTA VENEZIA WAS RATED WH RABOW MURALS. THE MAYOR CID TO LEAVE THEM THERE PERMANENTLY AS A TRIBUTE TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD’S INTY. HERE YOU N FD SEVERAL GAY BARS CLUDG MONO, PERHAPS THE FIRST GAY BAR MILAN TO OPEN ON A BIG STREET STEAD OF A SECLUD ALLEY, WHERE PEOPLE ULD SIMPLY ENTER OM THE ONT DOOR STEAD OF HAVG TO KNOCK OR RG DOORBELLS. AFTER THE MONO ME THE LECILANO AND, MORE RECENTLY, POP, A FEMIST AND FEME BAR. THE CROSSROAD BETWEEN VIA LEC AND VIA PANFILO CASTALDI – THE MA STREETS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WHERE YOU N FD MOST OF THE BARS AND RTRANTS – IS TODAY A CELEBRATED MEETG POT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY. “IT’S WARM AND WELG,” SAYS FERRI. “IT’S ALSO NICE FOR NEWERS AND TOURISTS WHO WANT TO EXPERIENCE THE LOL SCENE.” THE UP AND G AREA KNOWN AS NOLO IS QUICKLY BEG THE CY’S NEXT LGBTQ NEIGHBOURHOOD. THERE ARE SEVERAL GAY BARS AND RTRANTS AROUND THE PNEER NOLOSO. MILAN PRIS SELF ON BEG A GAY-IENDLY CY, PECIALLY PARED TO THE RT OF ITALY. IT HOSTS THE LARGT PRI THE UNTRY AND WEL OPENLY GAY MEN S FASHN DTRY. BUT THE LS, BS, TS AND QS WORKG OTHER DTRI STILL FACE DISCRIMATN AND FERRI BELIEV THE CY STILL HAS A WAY TO GO. “IF YOU WORK FASHN YOU N EASILY SAY YOU’RE GAY. BUT IF, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU WORK A BANK, THERE IS STILL THE ‘DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL’ LE,” HE SAYS. THOUGH CULTURAL STUTNS LIKE THE WELL-KNOWN BOOKSHOP ANTIGONE AND GAY CEMA FTIVAL MIX HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THE MILANE LGBTQ MUNY OVER THE YEARS. LOL QUEER CULTURE MILAN IS MOSTLY EXPRSED THROUGH BARS AND PARTI, YET THE SLOW SHIFT OVER THE YEARS OM TABOO TO MASTREAM HAS LED TO A MORE HOPEFUL YOUNGER GENERATN. “BEG BORN LS HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC TIM, KIDS WHO ARE NOW 18 OR 20 ARE MORE OL ABOUT SHOWG THEIR HOMOSEXUALY,” SAYS FERRI. “THIS, TOGETHER WH THE MORE TERNATNAL APPEAL OF THE CY, IS CERTALY HELPG.” BRIGTE STALLONE, GLZ GIRLZ @BRIGTELASVAMPA | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP HERE ARE SOME OTHER LGBTQ EVENTS AND CLUBS MILAN BIS GLTER: ESNDALO BAR, ITALIAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT ESNDALO IS A FUN AND RMAL PARTY HELD AT BAR Q21 PLASTIC NIGHTCLUB, COCKTAILS SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT PLASTIC HAS BEEN A MILAN STUTN SCE S CEPTN 1980. IN S HEYDAY THE CLIENTELE CLUD MADONNA, ELTON JOHN, ANDY WARHOL, FREDDIE MERCURY AND BCE SPRGSTEEN. THE CLUB HAS ALWAYS DRAWN A QUEER CROWD. LA BOUM BAR, ITALIAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT LA BOUM IS AN LGBTQ EVENT THAT TAK PLACE EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT. BLAN BAR, ITALIAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT BLAN IS A FASHNABLE BAR WHERE YOU’LL BE ABLE TO SPEND YOUR TIME CELEBRY SPOTTG – STRAIGHTS AND GAYS ALIKE. THE GLTER FAY THE INDRO MONTANELLI PUBLIC GARNS, MILAN | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

Milan has the biggt gay scene the whole of Northern Italy.

The bars and clubs are sttered all over Milan but there are no particular gay areas but there is a small ncentratn of gay venu Porta Venezia area. There are as yet no exclively gay hotels Milan but a number of gay iendly hotels. All acmodatn bookable on our webse are exclively gay or gay iendly so you are assured to be wele.

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The gay scene of Milan is more wily accepted Milan than Rome generally maly due to the Cosmopolan character of the cy as well as the numero fashn events that take place annually. Blan is a gay iendly bar wh excellent cktails at aperivo time. Is a iendly, relaxed lol pub jt round the rner om NoLo So and popular wh gay guys.

Service is iendly and fast pecially on weekend nights when the place is packed wh gay and straight people there for the good food and atmosphere. Mono is another gay iendly wh retro dér and popular wh hipsters.

NoLo So is a bar is a cute gay iendly but a different area of the cy.

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To enter many of the gay Milan clubs and others Italy you will need the ANDDOS rd. This is one of the longt-nng gay clubs Milan, open sce the Eighti. Homosexual Activy – Legal.

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“We were a group of iends who liked die rock mic and back then, there weren’t any gay clubs playg , ” he says. The ’90s atmosphere that first shaped this unterculture scene was partially fluenced by an earlier time of margalisatn for the gay muny.

She has always publicly advoted for the gay muny, whose support allowed her to reach an ternatnal dience. Myss Keta om the neighbourhood of Porta Venezia, Milan’s gay neighbourhood par excellence.

Here you n fd several gay bars cludg Mono, perhaps the first gay bar Milan to open on a big street stead of a seclud alley, where people uld simply enter om the ont door stead of havg to knock or rg doorbells.

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There are several gay bars and rtrants around the pneer NoLoSo. Milan pris self on beg a gay-iendly cy, pecially pared to the rt of Italy. It hosts the largt Pri the untry and wel openly gay men s fashn dtry.

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“If you work fashn you n easily say you’re gay.

Though cultural stutns like the well-known bookshop Antigone and gay cema ftival MIX have highlighted the Milane LGBTQ muny over the years. “Beg born ls homophobic and transphobic tim, kids who are now 18 or 20 are more ol about showg their homosexualy, ” says Ferri. Blan Bar, Italian Blan is a fashnable bar where you’ll be able to spend your time celebry spottg – straights and gays alike.

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

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Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.

He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

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To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. Here before me were three men who were gay and died om AIDS.

Then-Print Ronald Reagan did not mentn the word AIDS publicly for years until after his Hollywood iend Rock Hudson me out as gay and revealed that he was livg wh AIDS. The ernment was so adamant about not mentng AIDS that the topic was met wh lghter and homophobic remarks a 1982 prs nference which former Prs Secretary Larry Speak asked reporter Lter Ksolvg if he had AIDS.

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In that time of ernmental neglect, misrmatn, and homophobia, Jake posed a challenge his piece.

In my muny, ’s not unmon to hear someone mentn that homosexualy isn’t “Ain” or that homosexualy is an “agenda” beg phed by the whe mastream media to stroy the Black fay stcture.