This article analyzes the figure of the homosexual fascist, the 'homo-fascist,'in postwar
cultural memory through the lens of Alberto Moravia's 1951 novel Il conformista (The …

This chapter addresses the cultural role of the floral boutonnière in Italian men's attire of the
1920s. It investigates how flowers were worn and explores the ways in which they …

This book represents the conclusive phase of a research that I started in the mid-1990s. My
aim was that of documenting the repression of LGBT lives under Mussolini. At the time, little …

Abstract The Italian painter Filippo de Pisis (1896-1956) often used references to Dionysians
and Arcadian subjects to emphasize the homoerotic connotations associated with the …

This article illustrates the different shape that discourses of corporeality have taken within
the discipline from a chronological perspective. The first section explores how critical …

ABSTRACT A queer reading of Coccioli's Il migliore e l'ultimo and Fenoglio's Il libro di
Johnny complicates the narration of the Italian Resistance by following a zig-zag path. This …

How might analyses of queer Italian American media engage with critical race theory? This
essay employs insights from such theory both to further the investigation of the history of …

La lettura critica di tre recenti volumi relativi alla storia Lgbtq+-Il caso di G. La
patologizzazione dell'omosessualità nell'Italia fascista, di Gabriella Romano, Omosessualità …