In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of
LGBTQ+ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and
shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists
who achieved so much in the 1970s yet suffered devastating losses
during the AIDS epidemic of the
1980s. AntoloGaia offers an insider’s look at the
beginnings of the gay liberation movement in Italy and reveals how
it was intimately intertwined with other forms of left-wing
activism. At the same time, it powerfully conveys the queer joy of
a young person from a small village first encountering the vibrant
sexual minority communities of Naples, Bologna, and Rome. As
Marcasciano starts to embrace her trans identity, she meets the
famous anthropologist Pino Simonelli, who introduces her to
Naples’s unique femminielli subculture and gives her
the name Porporino, which she later shortens to Porpora. In keeping
with this story of gender, sexual, and political
discovery, AntoloGaia is the first piece of Italian
life-writing to use gender-neutral and mixed-gender language.
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