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• THE 5 BEST MILAN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MILAN
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• 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 EGYPT JAPAN GREECE SOUTH AI SPA MOROC MEXI TURKEY INDIA CROATIA BALI THAILAND ECUADOR 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.” EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. 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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MILAN GAY DISTRICT

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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 EGYPT JAPAN GREECE SOUTH AI SPA MOROC MEXI TURKEY INDIA CROATIA BALI THAILAND ECUADOR 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.” EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. 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. 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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. 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.

MEDLANUM HOTEL, GAY IENDLY HOTEL 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.

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.

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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!

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