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.
Contents:
- A GAY ISLAND MUNY CREATED BY ITALY'S FASCISTS
- HOW MSOLI CREATED A GAY ISLAND COMMUNY
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- THE SAD BUT TE STORY OF SAN DOMO, FASCIST ITALY’S ISLAND FOR ‘IMMORAL’ GAY MEN
A GAY ISLAND MUNY CREATED BY ITALY'S FASCISTS
Seventy-five years ago Fascist Italy, a group of gay men were labelled "generate", expelled om their hom and terned on one of the Tremi islands. * mussolini gay *
Seventy-five years ago Fascist Italy, a group of gay men were labelled "generate", expelled om their hom and terned on an island.
HOW MSOLI CREATED A GAY ISLAND COMMUNY
Bis the people fascist dictator Beno Msoli killed and the terror he spread, he also accintally created a gay island paradise. * mussolini gay *
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.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
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Gay men unrmed the image that the dictator wanted to project of Italian manhood. 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.
" So 1938 around 45 men believed to be homosexuals Catania were round up and nsigned to ternal exile.
THE SAD BUT TE STORY OF SAN DOMO, FASCIST ITALY’S ISLAND FOR ‘IMMORAL’ GAY MEN
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. "We were cur bee they were lled 'the girls', " says Carmela Santoro, an islanr who was jt a child when the gay exil began to arrive.