Activist on keeping memory of Italy's gay exiles
In the late 1930s, a tiny string of rocky islands in the Adriatic played a part in the effort by Benito Mussolini's Fascists to suppress homosexuality.
Around 45 men believed to be homosexuals in the Sicilian city of Catania were rounded up and consigned to internal exile.
They eventually found themselves on the island of San Domino, in the Tremitis.
This whole episode has been largely forgotten - but recently gay, lesbian and transgender rights activists have come to the archipelago to hold a small ceremony remembering the episode.
Vladimir Luxuria, an activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues was one of those who visited San Domino.
13 Jun 2013
- From the section Magazine