Lgbtq+ histories, visions, memories. A discussion of three books on Italian contemporary history

Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Maya De Leo
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2021/297
Language Italian Pages 9 P. 257-265 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ic297-oa4
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This article discusses three recent books published in Itlay on Lgbtq+ history, namely Il caso di G. La patologizzazione dell’omosessualità nell’Italia fascista, by Gabriella Romano; Omosessualità e cinema italiano. Dalla caduta del fascismo agli anni di piombo,by Mauro Giori; and L’aurora delle trans cattive. Storie, sguardi e vissuti della mia generazione transgender, by Porpora Marcasciano. In analyzing these books, the author raises a series of historiographical questions, discusses different methodological approaches, and opens up several trajectories for Lgbtq+ Italian historiography, placing these issues in a larger international debate.

Keywords: Lgbtq+ history, History of sexuality, Gender history, Italian history, Queer history,

Maya De Leo, Storie, visioni, memorie Lgbtq+: il Novecento italiano in tre libri in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 297/2021, pp 257-265, DOI: 10.3280/ic297-oa4