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Contents:

• OUR 7 FAVOURE PLAC TO EXPERIENCE GAY ITALY
• BT GAY CY ITALY? - ITALY FOM
• A GAY ISLAND MUNY CREATED BY ITALY'S FASCISTS
• THE 5 BEST ROME GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ROME

OUR 7 FAVOURE PLAC TO EXPERIENCE GAY ITALY

For travelers lookg to have fun one of Rome’s most betiful districts near the Colossm, Via San Gvanni Laterano, the so-lled Gay Street, is a mt: gay-iendly bars, clubs and rtrants all make for a social eveng.

BT GAY CY ITALY? - ITALY FOM

Take a stroll to Piazza Bra to admire the Roman Amphheatre and on to the monumental San Zeno Altarpiece by Andrea Mantegna ntug to Porta Nuova, the historic center wh the elegant Lucla Cafe, a gay-iendly hang out and the perfect place for an aperif. Taorma is one of the most gay-iendly statns on Sicily, an ial statn year round, thanks to the d climate and the foc on fun, relaxatn and joie vivre as well as the warm hospaly of the Sicilian people.

A GAY ISLAND MUNY CREATED BY ITALY'S FASCISTS

Not far away are the Garns, where there is the first Italian monument dited to the Nazi persecutn of gays, lbians and Aldi: The buildg which Pier Paolo Pasoli set the exterr shots of his last film, "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom". Leonardo Da Vci’s legacy Milan is well known and many historians agree that he was a gay artist leavg his mark many masterpiec of the cy, cludg The Last Supper, hoed by the refectory of the nvent of Santa Maria lle Grazie. There are also many wonrful lser-known plac where an tert LGBTQ+ history uld lead you, such as Florence's Bargello Mm, which ntas an earlier Renaissance statue of David by the artist Donatello—the first ee-standg male nu sce Classil Antiquy, and a super-sexy homoerotic nu at that.

A btlg port cy ma famo by s proximy to Mount Etna and UNESCO-listed baroque archecture, Gay Catania attracts a young and dynamic crowd who breathe life to the old town wh rabow buntg and artsy muny spac.

THE 5 BEST ROME GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ROME

A beach day is also an optn while Rome; simply travel southwt for epic sunset views on goln sand beach, stoppg at Ostia, Anz, Sperlonga or wherever tak your your troductn to Gay Rome by fanng out east om the Colossm along Via San Gvanni, a social street led wh gay-iendly bars, clubs and rtrants. Align your vis wh the summer-long Gay Village ftival, one of the most important events the cy’s gay lendar which se Par l Nfeo and surroundg neighbourhoods bee overn wh LGBT street parti, live mic, performance art, film screengs and more. Home to the largt – not to mentn the most glamoro – gay muny the untry, Gay Milan offers a vibrant space for LGBTQ divas and fashnistas om all rners of the angl the cy centre nod to some era of archecture; be art nouve around Corso Magenta, ratnalism Piazza San Babila or the futuristic skyle shaped by the lik of Zaha Hadid and César Pelli.

I've been Spa, and I am gog there aga this summer, but I was thkg of visg Italy, somewhere Italy, maybe like Bologna, I've read about that is not as expensive as Milan or Rome and that has many gay clubs and cisg areas. 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.

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.

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.

“The stutns, the associatns, and the servic who al wh agile people, they should wonr if they gave them eedom of exprsn, ” the Arcigay anizatn wr, “ a society tly equal and civil, the right of voicg one’s genr inty has to be granted. Some reasons clu the Vatin’s strong prence the untry and s stance on homosexualy, the parliament’s rejectn of the laws, and the public opn that don’t see well that a child has 2 parents of the same genr. Palermo is known for s nightlife and some of the plac where you n enjoy gay nightlife are Ex Drks — for a young and mixed crowd, theme parti, and baret shows, I Canlai — for live mic, DJ, and queer night events such as Pop Shock, or Il Gatto Negro— for mic, drks, and gay social events.

Legend has that gay and bisexual men even exploed a loophole the cy’s laws durg the Carnival of Venice – a hedonistic few weeks of revelry and le-breakg, Carnival was a time when some laws were emed void if the perpetrator was wearg a mask. Venice’s proment male prostutn scene creased until s peak durg the 18th and 19th centuri, which overlapped wh the relatively early crimalisatn of homosexualy across Italy 1889 followg the adoptn of the Zanarlli Penal Co. The most popular naturist beach wh an extensive gay sectn Easily accsible It offers a relaxed atmosphereIt is a long, sandy beach wh a pewood nveniently loted behd the gay sectn, one hour om Gallipoli.