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Contents:

• ROME GAY DISTRICT
• GAY LIFE ROME - ROME FOM
• WEEK THERE A GAY SCENE? - ROME FOM
• ROME, VIO: SPARTACTV – GAY LIFE AND PRI ITALY’S ETERNAL CY ROME
• THE SECRET GAY LIFE OF THE VATIN: INSI A HIDN NETHERWORLD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCHBY VANY FAIROCTOBER 31, 2013SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAS MORS OF A POWERFUL “GAY LOBBY” WH THE VATIN MAKE HEADL AND A NEW POPE PROMIS REFORM, VANY FAIRNTRIBUTG EDOR MICHAEL JOSEPH GROSS TERVIEWS DOZENS OF CURRENT AND FORMER PRITS, GAY MONKS, VETERAN VATIN JOURNALISTS, ITALIAN ARISTOCRATS, AND GAY MEN AT ROMAN GYMS, BARS, NIGHTCLUBS, SEX CLUBS, AND RTRANTS AND FDS THAT “TO BE GAY THE VATIN IS NO GUARANTEE OF SUCCS, MARK OF BELONGG, OR SHORTCUT TO EROTIC TRIGUE. MOST BASILLY IS A SENTENCE OF ISOLATN,” A LIFE “ A CLOSET THAT HAS NO DOOR.”RELATED: HOW STRAIGHT ALLI TOOK OVER—AND WON—AMERI’S GAY-RIGHTS BATTLEACRDG TO GROSS’S PIECE THE DECEMBER ISSUE OF VANY FAIR (ON STANDS TODAY), A SIGNIFINT NUMBER OF GAY CLERICS AT THE VATIN ARE POSNS OF GREAT THORY, BUT THEY HAB A SECRETIVE HERWORLD BEE HOMOSEXUALY IS OFFICIALLY NMNED. THE PRCIPAL REQUIREMENT OF THEIR POWER AND PRITHOOD IS SILENCE ABOUT WHO THEY REALLY ARE—AT LEAST PUBLIC. ACRDG TO GROSS, “CLERICS HAB THIS SILENCE A VARIETY OF WAYS. A FEW KEEP THEIR SEXUALY ENTIRELY PRIVATE AND ADHERE TO THE VOW OF CELIBACY. MANY OTHERS QUIETLY LET THEMSELV BE KNOWN AS GAY TO A LIMED GREE … SOMETIM THEY REMA CELIBATE AND SOMETIM THEY DO NOT. A THIRD WAY, PERHAPS THE LEAST MON BUT CERTALY THE MOST VISIBLE, VOLV LIVG A DOUBLE LIFE.GROSS GO ON TO SCRIBE THE S AND SIGNALS BY WHICH GAY PRITS NAVIGATE LIFE THE VATIN. “CAMP IS PERHAPS THE MOST POWERFUL AND PERVASIVE” , WH IRONIC, EFFEMATE SELF-MOCKERY ALLOWG PRITS TO “EXERCISE SOME LIMED REBELLN AGAST THEIR OWN ISOLATN AND VISIBILY.” ONE FORMER GAY PRIT SCRIB CLERIL MP TO GROSS AS “A NATURAL WAY OF EXPRSG [GAY INTY] WHILE CELIBATE.” YET THE CHURCH, AS ITALIAN SOCIETY, GROSS WR, “THE RIGHT APPEARANCE—LA BELLA FIGURA­—IS ALL.... PARTI CELEBRATG APPOTMENT TO THE VATIN AND OTHER HIGH CHURCH OFFIC N BE LAVISH … WH MANY CLERICS ATTENDANCE BEG ‘GAY MEN WEARG EVERYTHG HANDMA, PERFECT, QUEER AS ,’” AS A PROMENT FIGURE THE ROMAN ART WORLD TELLS GROSS. STILL, GROSS FDS AN EVERY-MAN-FOR-HIMSELF DYNAMIC ROME’S GAY CLERIL CULTURE: GAY CLERICS OFTEN FAIL TO HELP ONE ANOTHER, SAYS A GAY FORMER SEMARIAN WHO WAS ROBBED ONE NIGHT A PARK WHILE NUMERO MEN STOOD BY, BEE SOLIDARY ENTAILS THE RISK OF BEG OUTED.FOR CLERICS WHO BREAK THE VOW OF CELIBACY, GAY SNAS ARE GOOD PLAC TO MEET OTHER GAY PRITS AND MONKS (THOUGH SOME GAY CELIBATE CLERICS E THE SNAS NOT FOR SEX BUT TO EXPERIENCE A SENSE OF FELLOWSHIP WH OTHERS LIKE THEMSELV), ACRDG TO GROSS.IF A GAY CLERGY MEMBER MAK A NNECTN, ’S POSSIBLE TO E YOUR MONASTERY CELL FOR SEXUAL ASSIGNATNS, AS LONG AS YOU DON’T MAKE MUCH NOISE. “YOU N SNEAK PEOPLE , NO PROBLEM,” ONE GAY MONK TELLS GROSS, “BUT TRY TO AVOID NSISTENT PATTERNS OF MOVEMENT.” THAT SAID, A FORMER MONK TELLS GROSS THAT “NO ONE HAS SEX” WH OTHER RINTS OF HIS OWN MONASTERY, “BEE IS LIKE A BIG BROTHERHOE. EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYTHG.”TO READ THE FULL VERSN OF THIS STORY, AND THE RT OF THE DECEMBER ISSUE,DOWNLOADVANY FAIR'S DIGAL EDN(AVAILABLE FOR YOUR TABLET VICE OR IPHONE) WH AMAZON’S ONE-CLICK SHOPPG.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVVANY FAIR

ROME GAY DISTRICT

While gay life Rome has bee much more open and prevalent recent time, the cy’s gay district is still relatively small. Dpe beg a pal cy, you will not fd a scene gay life Rome has bee much more open and prevalent recent time, the cy’s gay district is still relatively small.

Neverthels, most gay life n be found on Via San Gvanni Laterano, which is affectnately referred to as the ‘Gay Street’. The most popular gay bar on this street is Comg Out, and wh a name like this, only mak sense that the clientele and staff are more than out and proud.

GAY LIFE ROME - ROME FOM

While Gay Street may be the hub of gay life Rome, there are several gay clubs, bars, and special events throughout the cy.

WEEK THERE A GAY SCENE? - ROME FOM

Pretty popular among the gay muny is a lively bar, The Comg Out, at the begng of via san gvanni laterano, right ont of the Colossm. Gay oriented guid tours of the cy are anized by Massiiano Cano, a young, knowledgeable gay llegue who'll be more that happy to update you about the gay life (past and prent) town.

When most people thk of Rome, they thk of the relig ctoms and tradns most closely related to the cy rather than Gay Rome travel. There has been a wi variety of gay bars, events, and clubs poppg up and around the cy recently, some of which rival the bt gay scen Europe.

ROME, VIO: SPARTACTV – GAY LIFE AND PRI ITALY’S ETERNAL CY ROME

Gay Rome neighbourhoods. Wh this md, nsir keepg public displays of affectn to the bare mimum when outsi of the gay spac the cy.

THE SECRET GAY LIFE OF THE VATIN: INSI A HIDN NETHERWORLD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCHBY VANY FAIROCTOBER 31, 2013SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAS MORS OF A POWERFUL “GAY LOBBY” WH THE VATIN MAKE HEADL AND A NEW POPE PROMIS REFORM, VANY FAIRNTRIBUTG EDOR MICHAEL JOSEPH GROSS TERVIEWS DOZENS OF CURRENT AND FORMER PRITS, GAY MONKS, VETERAN VATIN JOURNALISTS, ITALIAN ARISTOCRATS, AND GAY MEN AT ROMAN GYMS, BARS, NIGHTCLUBS, SEX CLUBS, AND RTRANTS AND FDS THAT “TO BE GAY THE VATIN IS NO GUARANTEE OF SUCCS, MARK OF BELONGG, OR SHORTCUT TO EROTIC TRIGUE. MOST BASILLY IS A SENTENCE OF ISOLATN,” A LIFE “ A CLOSET THAT HAS NO DOOR.”RELATED: HOW STRAIGHT ALLI TOOK OVER—AND WON—AMERI’S GAY-RIGHTS BATTLEACRDG TO GROSS’S PIECE THE DECEMBER ISSUE OF VANY FAIR (ON STANDS TODAY), A SIGNIFINT NUMBER OF GAY CLERICS AT THE VATIN ARE POSNS OF GREAT THORY, BUT THEY HAB A SECRETIVE HERWORLD BEE HOMOSEXUALY IS OFFICIALLY NMNED. THE PRCIPAL REQUIREMENT OF THEIR POWER AND PRITHOOD IS SILENCE ABOUT WHO THEY REALLY ARE—AT LEAST PUBLIC. ACRDG TO GROSS, “CLERICS HAB THIS SILENCE A VARIETY OF WAYS. A FEW KEEP THEIR SEXUALY ENTIRELY PRIVATE AND ADHERE TO THE VOW OF CELIBACY. MANY OTHERS QUIETLY LET THEMSELV BE KNOWN AS GAY TO A LIMED GREE … SOMETIM THEY REMA CELIBATE AND SOMETIM THEY DO NOT. A THIRD WAY, PERHAPS THE LEAST MON BUT CERTALY THE MOST VISIBLE, VOLV LIVG A DOUBLE LIFE.GROSS GO ON TO SCRIBE THE S AND SIGNALS BY WHICH GAY PRITS NAVIGATE LIFE THE VATIN. “CAMP IS PERHAPS THE MOST POWERFUL AND PERVASIVE” , WH IRONIC, EFFEMATE SELF-MOCKERY ALLOWG PRITS TO “EXERCISE SOME LIMED REBELLN AGAST THEIR OWN ISOLATN AND VISIBILY.” ONE FORMER GAY PRIT SCRIB CLERIL MP TO GROSS AS “A NATURAL WAY OF EXPRSG [GAY INTY] WHILE CELIBATE.” YET THE CHURCH, AS ITALIAN SOCIETY, GROSS WR, “THE RIGHT APPEARANCE—LA BELLA FIGURA­—IS ALL.... PARTI CELEBRATG APPOTMENT TO THE VATIN AND OTHER HIGH CHURCH OFFIC N BE LAVISH … WH MANY CLERICS ATTENDANCE BEG ‘GAY MEN WEARG EVERYTHG HANDMA, PERFECT, QUEER AS ,’” AS A PROMENT FIGURE THE ROMAN ART WORLD TELLS GROSS. STILL, GROSS FDS AN EVERY-MAN-FOR-HIMSELF DYNAMIC ROME’S GAY CLERIL CULTURE: GAY CLERICS OFTEN FAIL TO HELP ONE ANOTHER, SAYS A GAY FORMER SEMARIAN WHO WAS ROBBED ONE NIGHT A PARK WHILE NUMERO MEN STOOD BY, BEE SOLIDARY ENTAILS THE RISK OF BEG OUTED.FOR CLERICS WHO BREAK THE VOW OF CELIBACY, GAY SNAS ARE GOOD PLAC TO MEET OTHER GAY PRITS AND MONKS (THOUGH SOME GAY CELIBATE CLERICS E THE SNAS NOT FOR SEX BUT TO EXPERIENCE A SENSE OF FELLOWSHIP WH OTHERS LIKE THEMSELV), ACRDG TO GROSS.IF A GAY CLERGY MEMBER MAK A NNECTN, ’S POSSIBLE TO E YOUR MONASTERY CELL FOR SEXUAL ASSIGNATNS, AS LONG AS YOU DON’T MAKE MUCH NOISE. “YOU N SNEAK PEOPLE , NO PROBLEM,” ONE GAY MONK TELLS GROSS, “BUT TRY TO AVOID NSISTENT PATTERNS OF MOVEMENT.” THAT SAID, A FORMER MONK TELLS GROSS THAT “NO ONE HAS SEX” WH OTHER RINTS OF HIS OWN MONASTERY, “BEE IS LIKE A BIG BROTHERHOE. EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYTHG.”TO READ THE FULL VERSN OF THIS STORY, AND THE RT OF THE DECEMBER ISSUE,DOWNLOADVANY FAIR'S DIGAL EDN(AVAILABLE FOR YOUR TABLET VICE OR IPHONE) WH AMAZON’S ONE-CLICK SHOPPG.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVVANY FAIR

Gay Street. The first stop for many gay tourists headg to Rome will be Gay Street (otherwise known as Via di San Gvanni Laterano). You’ll fd Gay Street directly oppose the Colossm, and although isn’t entirely geared towards the gay scene, as the name might suggt, there are numero popular gay bars along this street.

The bar crowds here tend to spill out to the streets durg the ftivi, givg you the add benef of enjoyg a drk a gay-iendly environment wh the betiful backdrop of the Colossm to make the night even better. Another popular gay-iendly spot the cy is Trastevere.

You’ll fd the gay bars here are a ltle more upsle than the sual bars on Gay Street.