Gay fascism

Twenty men were investigated in ; one was 17, one 49 and the rest were in their twenties and thirties. Vincenzo Manzini, Trattato di diritto penale italiano secondo il codice delVol. VII Turin: Unione tipografico-editrice torinese,p.

Mario Magri, Una vita per la liberta. David Alderson Abstract: The claim that there may be a privileged connection between male homosexuality and fascism has been persistent, and has recently been renewed in some surprising quarters. It is not at all certain that these men were, or identified themselves as, homosexual.

This article considers the erotically charged figure of the skinhead and his. Ebner, M. The anti-gay advocacy group Oregon Citizens Alliance claimed: Homosexuality was a CENTRAL element of the fascist system, that the Nazi elite was rampant with homosexuality and pederasty, that Adolph Hitler intentionally surrounded himself with homosexuals during his entire adult life, and that the people most responsible for many Nazi.

Thirty men investigated in ranged in age from 18 to 65, with most in their twenties and thirties. See also Bruno P. Eder, Lesley A. The files of the confinati comunithough not entirely available to scholars, attest to this.

Queer Fascism and the

Download preview PDF. Google Scholar. Diciassette anni di confino politico di un martire delle Fosse ardeatine Rome: Editore Ludovico Puglielli,p. This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Search author on: PubMed Google Scholar. It is an ahistorical assertion, however, because it relies on a sense that both fascism and homosexuality are fixed terms.

A Thing for Men

Institutional subscriptions. The s and early ‘30’s looked like the beginning of the end for centuries of gay intolerance. In his memoir, Magri noted the anomalous presence of a group of homosexual men who had appeared in the confino politico colony on the Tremiti Islands, in the Adriatic, around There were about perverts, almost all originating from Catania and other cities in Sicily.

These poor devils, among whom there were skilled artisans and even teachers, lived in horrible conditions. Unable to display preview. Document included in files of all homosexuals condemned to confino from Catania; for example, Questore of Catania A.

Questore of Catania A. Download references. They received four lire per day and were crammed into two foetid wooden barracks, surrounded by a metal fence that only allowed a few square metres in which to move around.

The scholarship on homosexuality during Fascism consists of several useful but cursory articles on homosexuals persecuted with confino politicomainly in the province of Catania Sicily. Then came fascism and the Nazis.