What do you thk of when you thk of Italy's LGBT Culture? The gay beach of Italy's queer statns like Puglia? The homoerotic art by Renaissance
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GAY RIGHTS
An troductn to the history of gay life Italy the past few centuri. * gay history italy *
When talkg about Italian history and homosexualy, people often spontaneoly voke the rabow triad: Leonardo da Vci, Michelangelo, and Caravagg. 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. 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.
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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. 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).
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * gay history italy *
“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.
Nam like “Inverto” (verted) and “perasta” were ed to scribe a gay person, riskg jail or “mani” if his or her behavr would bee too apparent. Even if the proposed Codice Roc that mak beg gay a crime do not materialize, gays are sent to the borrs e ntue to be discrimated by the populatn.
Homosexualy is even ed as a blackmail threat, fact the secret fascist police publish a report about the dub virily of certa men power or famo.