AntoloGaia : : Queering the Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir / / Porpora Marcasciano.

• VerfasserIn: Marcasciano, Porpora,
• MitwirkendeR: Galli, Sara,; Jamali, Mohammad Javad,; Pascuzzi, Francesco,; Waters, Sandra,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; 2024
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Other Voices of Italy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.) :; 0 images

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Praise for AntoloGaia -- Contents -- Foreword: Giving Voice to the Italian Trans Community -- Translators' Note: Gendered and Pejorative Language in the Italian Version of AntoloGaia -- Preface to the Italian Edition: The Unbearable Lightness of Gender in History and Biography -- 1. Le Début (1973-1976) -- 2. 1977: Dreaming and Utopia -- 3. Extravagance (1978-1982) -- 4. Transition, An Epic Passage (1983 . . .) -- Author Acknowledgments -- Appendixes -- Timelines -- Key Words -- Porpora's Publications -- Notes on Contributors