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- 10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- A PERSONAL PARADOX: MY LIFE AS AN ITALIAN-AMERIN GAY MAN; OR, THE INTY CRIS OF ETHNIC QUEERS/QUEER ETHNICS
10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD
Explore our gay travel gui to Italy featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more! * italian gay culture *
When talkg about Italian history and homosexualy, people often spontaneoly voke the rabow triad: Leonardo da Vci, Michelangelo, and Caravagg. However, Italy has a rich history of homosexualy that go beyond celebrated artists to embrace mon people too.
We all know about the relatnship between Hadrian and Anto om Marguere Yourcenar’s “Memoirs of Hadrian”, which, by romanticisg the pairg, may have distorted the way we thk about homosexualy ancient tim.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
* italian gay culture *
Homosexual relatnships the way we tend them today–between two ee adults–were rarely allowed. Moraly had changed towards a substantial nmnatn of homosexualy, which found a perfect match the cipient Christian ethics. It’s one of the Inferno’s most-known pag, still read by hundreds of Italian stunts every year, which likely mak Lati one of the most famo Italian gay men history.
The Cy of Lili was right at the centre of this movement, which guaranteed an unprecented gree of tolerance towards homosexuals. Partly bee of this new legal system, durg the late 19th and early 20th centuri, Italy turned to a refuge for homosexuals om northern Europe and the U. It is grotque that, years later, Fascism would punish homosexuals by sendg them to nfement nearby statns, often extremely poor islands the middle of nowhere.
(Ironilly, today, some of the very lotns chosen by the Fascist regime to nfe homosexual men have bee gay holiday venu.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Take an -pth look at Italy's LGBT+ rights, cludg rmatn on gay marriage, public rmatn, and forms of discrimatn. * italian gay culture *
Postwar Italy, polilly domated by the untry’s Catholic party, didn’t do much agast the diffed homophobia of those years. Society red about gay people only for the wrong reasons, as happened 1960 when an vtigatn on the “homosexual scene” the northern town of Brcia turned to a massive media se wh endls plot twists and unfound accatns (which clud one of human traffickg). A year later, a group of gay people publicly monstrated for their rights for the first time the history of the untry.
The Vatin Mms even has a number of homoerotic piec of art and a vis to this magnificent llectn is certaly orr. For visors lookg for an LGBTQ+ scene, the relatively small but spired gay nightlife is only steps away om the Colism.
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. One of the most gay-iendly areas Southern Italy is Puglia, cludg the beachsi town of Gallipoli, which has recently bee a popular statn for LGBTQ+ lols.
A PERSONAL PARADOX: MY LIFE AS AN ITALIAN-AMERIN GAY MAN; OR, THE INTY CRIS OF ETHNIC QUEERS/QUEER ETHNICS
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. * italian gay culture *
Consirg how elive the word ‘queer’ remas to the wir Italian dience, would perhaps be more accurate to talk about a gay Italian culture wh the arts, lerary scene and show bs. “Queer is an umbrella word, ” said Salvatori, “that tri to fe a personal choice of inty opposn to the heteronormative expectatns, which require someone to be eher a man or a woman, heterosexual or homosexual. Durg this perd, the word “gay” is ed for the first time Italy by wrer Alberto Arbaso his novel L’Anonimo Lombardo, 1957.
Feri Felli’s inic film La Dolce Va featur some homosexual and transvte si-characters among s crowd st. In 1960, the first explicly gay song is released: Seguendo la flotta, wrten by Arbaso and performed by Lra Betti. While male homosexualy is still heavily owned upon and therefore censored om media, female homosexualy is an object of sire for the male gaze, and be more and more mon to see lbians on screen.