Did Police Homophobia Allow a Serial Killer to Target Gay Men for Over a Year?

Contents:

• GAY MAFIA HMAN MURRED BY OWN BEE CRIME FAY ‘DISGRACED’ BY HIS SEXUALY
• A GAY ISLAND MUNY CREATED BY ITALY'S FASCISTS
• BERLO: ARRTATO IL SERIAL KILLER I GAY
• ITALIAN MOB OPEN TO GAY MEMBERS, AS LONG AS THEY DON’T ‘PARA PUBLIC’
• CAN HORNY MALE MAQU HELP DTIGMATIZE GAY SEX AMONG HUMANS?
• DEATH OF SGER LUC DALLA SPARKS ITALY GAY BATE
• DID POLICE HOMOPHOBIA ALLOW A SERIAL KILLER TO TARGET GAY MEN FOR OVER A YEAR?

GAY MAFIA HMAN MURRED BY OWN BEE CRIME FAY ‘DISGRACED’ BY HIS SEXUALY

When Gangano, who had himself mted multiple murrs, began livg wh a male partner, Mantella said the ‘Ndrangheta “uld not tolerate” the “disgrace” of a member beg openly gay. Members of the gay muny Italy are claimg that not enough is beg done to tch a serial killer who many believe has murred 11 homosexuals seven years.

A GAY ISLAND MUNY CREATED BY ITALY'S FASCISTS

"The crime volvg Enri Si Luzia is only the latt an credible seri of killgs that seem to have no end, " Fran Grilli, the Print of Arcigay, an Italian gay advocy group, said a statement.

SummaryItaly's LGBT muny ncerned by electn rultFears ernment will only promote 'tradnal' valuRight promis not to roll back rightsROME, Sept 27 (Rters) - The LGBT muny has "very real fears" after a nservative bloc domated by the far-right won Italy's general electn, a leadg gay rights mpaigner told natnalist Brothers of Italy group, led by Grgia Meloni, emerged as the largt party the ballot and will lead the most right-wg ernment Rome sce World War Two. "Unfortunately there are very real fears" about an erosn of civil rights unr the new admistratn, Fabriz Marrazzo of the Gay Party is allied wh the League, another far-right force led by Matteo Salvi, and the mastream nservative Forza Italia of former premier Silv Berlni.

BERLO: ARRTATO IL SERIAL KILLER I GAY

Explag her opposn to gay parentg rights, she has said that "unlucky children" who are up for adoptn "serve the bt" - meang a father and a has nied suggtns that her socially nservative outlook would stretch to unrmg or abolishg existg Italian legislatn on abortn rights or same-sex partnerships. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane'GENDER AND LGBT COLONISATION'Marrazzo, a former lear of the Arcigay LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) associatn who unsuccsfully stood the Sept. 25 electn, said he was most ncerned about the cultural signals g om the said might bee harr to n anti-LGBT discrimatn programm schools and said there had been an crease the past homophobic attacks Italian ci and regns wh right-wg Va & Famiglia, a nservative Catholic lobby that is highly spic of sex tn schools, has lled on the new ernment to pick an tn mister opposed to "any genr and LGBT iologil lonisatn schools" is not expected to take office before late October, so is too early to say whether she will heed the advice.

He also said his party supports same-sex partnerships - spe havg voted agast their troductn 2016 - and "is agast all discrimatn"'s ai also stood by a ll to censor an episo of the popular children's rtoon "Peppa Pig" which featured a polar bear wh two mothers, sayg gay parents nnot be prented to mors "as an absolutely natural fact" surveys suggt most Italians are more June, an Ipsos poll showed that 63% of Italians backed marriage rights for gay people, up 15 pots om 2013, and 59% were favour of gay adoptns, an crease of 17 pots om ne years ago.

ITALIAN MOB OPEN TO GAY MEMBERS, AS LONG AS THEY DON’T ‘PARA PUBLIC’

They were held unr a prison regime - but some found life the untry's first openly gay muny a liberatg summer, tourists are drawn to the bety of a ty strg of rocky islands the jt recently a group of visors me to the Tremi archipelago not so much to enjoy the peace and lm of this remote place as to were gay, lbian and transgenr rights had e to hold a small ceremony durg which they would mark a shameful episo that unfold the islands more than 70 years the late 1930s the archipelago played a part the effort by Beno Msoli's Fascists to supprs homosexualy. So the Italians are strong, mascule, and 's impossible that homosexualy n exist a Fascist regime, " says profsor of history at the Universy of Bergamo, Lorenzo the strategy was to ver up the issue as much as discrimatory laws were passed. But a climate was created which open maniftatns of homosexualy uld be vigoroly one particular police prefect the Sicilian cy of Catania took full advantage of the official mood.

They eventually found themselv about 600km away on the island of San Domo, the ptn, The 2008 graphic novel In Italia Sono Tutti Maschi tells the story of gay people exiled unr fascismThe whole episo has been largely 's thought that nobody who endured this punishment is still alive today, and there are few tailed acunts of what went on their book, The Island and the Cy, rearchers Gianan Goretti and Tommaso Giartosi talk of dozens of men, most but not all om Catania, endurg harsh ndns on San would arrive handcuffed, and then be hoed large, spartan dormori wh no electricy or nng water. "The prisoners knew the exposure of their homosexualy would have ed shame and anguish for their fai back home eply nservative towns and of that mood is ptured a letter om the son of a Sicilian peasant, who had been trag to be a prit when he was round up. For the first time their liv, the men were a place where they uld be themselv - ee of the stigma that normally surround them voutly Catholic 1930s this meant to the exil was explaed a rare terview wh a San Domo veteran, named only as Gieppe B - published many years ago the gay magaze, Babilonia - who said that a way the men were better off on the island.

"In those days if you were a femmella [a slang Italian word for a gay man] you uldn't even leave your home, or make yourself noticed - the police would arrt you, " he said of his home town near Napl. Some prisoners wept, Gieppe said, when the outbreak of World War II 1939 led to the end of the ternal exile regime on San Domo, and the men were returned to a kd of hoe arrt the plac where they me ptn, Tremi/MPA number of gay men were terned along wh polil prisoners on other small islands, such as Usti and Lampsa, but San Domo was the only one where all the exil were is eply ironic that the Italy of that time, they uld fd a gree of eedom only on a prison party of gay and lbian rights activists who gathered on the archipelago the other day put down a plaque memory of the exil. "This is necsary, bee nobody speaks of what happened those years, " said one of the activists, Ivan Slfarotto, a Member of the sufferg hasn't end for Italy's gay muny, he says.

CAN HORNY MALE MAQU HELP DTIGMATIZE GAY SEX AMONG HUMANS?

There is still no real social stigma attached to homophobia Italy, Slfarotto says, and the state don't extend legal rights of any kd to gay or lbian stggle for equaly go n follow the Magaze on Twter and on Facebook. This created ser tensns between the thori and the gay muny, the latter accg the former of draggg their heels and not takg the ath of a gay man serly enough. BERLINO – Uccisi n la 'droga llo stupro' per qualche centaia di ro: n l'arrto di un uomo di 37 anni, sabato, la polizia di Berlo ha mso fe a una tena di lti nell'ambiente gay lla pale tes, che ha provoto la morte di almeno tre persone tra i 32 e i 41 anni.

DEATH OF SGER LUC DALLA SPARKS ITALY GAY BATE

The payoff for promiscuy arrived March 1986, wh a posive diagnosis of AIDS, after which Lupo apparently ran amok, dulgg his taste for sadomasochism a vlent mpaign of revenge agast the gay muny. Lupo was leavg a gay bar, the night of April 18, when he met an elrly tramp on Hungerford Bridge and somethg si of him sudnly "screamed out at the world. In 1992, New Jersey mob boss John “Johnny Boy” D’Amato, head of the DeCavalnte fay, was shot ad by one of his own soldiers after emerged he was homosexual.

While, for now, David is only beg vtigated for the aths of the gay men the Bilbao area, thori believe that his spree agast LGBTQ dividuals uld extend to other parts of Spa.

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DID POLICE HOMOPHOBIA ALLOW A SERIAL KILLER TO TARGET GAY MEN FOR OVER A YEAR?

Image ptn, Luc Dalla's funeral was held the thedral his home town of BolognaThe ath of one of Italy's most popular sgers, Luc Dalla, has sparked bate about attus towards homosexualy the, who died at the age of 68, was buried his home town of Bologna on pann gave an emotnal addrs to the 50, 000 who gathered to watch the event, which was rried live on TV. But Luc Dalla was a man who, beg gay, never said out [loud], " said wily rpected journalist Lucia said Dalla's se was an example of how much homophobia existed Italy.

"It's all fe and you even get a burial at a thedral, wh all the blsg of the Church, if you don't say you're gay, " she said, addg that Italy was permissive only when turned a bld eye to certa BBC's Alan Johnston, Rome, says the much loved sger and songwrer was, wh his poetic lyrics and soarg voice, a major part of the natn's mil 's work has been scribed as pturg the tratns and aspiratns untls Italian most famo song was perhaps Caso - a homage to opera legend Enri Caso, wrten for opera sger Luciano Pavarotti, which sold ne ln on this storyRelated Inter LksThe BBC is not rponsible for the ntent of external s. Photograph: Ricrdo Antimiani/EPAAttempts by var ernments over the past three s to enshre gay rights law have eher been stifled or sabotaged.

Fabriz Marrazzo, a spokperson for Gay Centre, a Rome-based associatn, said received about 20, 000 reports of discrimatn agast LGBT people a year, of which about 9% are severe. Alsandro Zan, a gay polician wh the Democratic party, part of the lg aln, and archect of the draft legislatn, was threatened wh ath by an onle opponent unls he whdrew the bill.