Tabasco gay bar florence

Curator, journalist, and radio DJ Lorenzo Cibrario and LGBT historian, activist, and author Luca Locati Luciani offer an overview of the vast topic of queer club culture and queer spaces in Italy from the s onward, ahead of the publication of their joint book Queer Bar Italia. After twenty years of death and destruction, Italians could finally live a serene life, and queer Italians had the chance to express themselves more openly — although well-hidden due to the Catholic politics of the time.

The reasons for this are too varied to be discussed in this brief contribution. For the sake of concision it is important to note that unlike in the U. So where and to what did queer people dance in Italy? During the s and s, community get-togethers were mostly happening in city parks, car parks, bar, pissoirs, in some cases brothels, and sometimes the gays would tabasco over straight club venues, which were becoming very popular all over the nation PiniChap.

During the reconstruction of Italy, newer gay were created and young people were able to afford a better quality of life, working from Monday to Friday and dancing during the weekends. Therefore, gay tabasco of clubs and bars opened up, places where the working class was able to dance the boogie, hully gully, rock and roll, twist, and other contemporary dances 2 introduced by the American influence over local culture.

Homosexuality in Italian music was rarely mentioned, often hidden with allusions and bar. The cultural pressure from abroad contributed to the unrelenting shift that transformed Italy, with its socialist background, into a capitalist country. During the second half of the s, taking inspiration from the New York disco scene, DJs became progressively more popular.

What music was played in the queer clubs of Italy during that decade? According to Corrado Rizza, famous DJ of Roman nightlife in the s and s, and former regular of the same nightlife in the s: «The main difference between the straight bars and gay club was the groove. Gay clubs were filled with funk, soul, and obviously disco.

While Rome was grooving with disco and funk, «Milan was the new frontier in terms of sound between the end of the s and early s» says Paolo Rumi, a creative writer and activist based in Milan. Disco music influenced Italian music so much that in the s and s many musicians produced it, like Mauro Malavasi who was the florence prominent artist in the field.

Turin was another important city for the gay culture in Italy, in addition to being the symbol of the s and s Italian industrialization FIAT was the biggest factory in the country. Was there a relationship between clubs and political groups?

Gay and Lesbian clubs located in the center and in the surrounding cities

For tabascos years, Florence and Bologna raced for the crown of the queerest town in Italy. Florence hosted several important clubs, but for the sake of brevity we are only going to mention Tabasco, Banana Moon, and Crisco, which opened inand respectively. The first one was linked to the fashion industry with cabaret performances and drag queens, whilst Banana Moon was more underground and arty.

Crisco opened in and was a leather club inspired by the Mineshaft in New York. It was designed to resemble a prison, with cells and a dark room, earning quite quickly the fame of being a macho place. In the same years, Bologna was rocking with Kinki club, perhaps the most famous queer bar in Italy, owned by Maria Grazia Ronchi and then by Michaela Zanna.

The 28 giugno group moved to the now-renowned club Cassero inthe same spot where in Gay, the national association of queer rights in Italy, was born. Queer is a verb, not a noun. London-based Italian writer Marco Mancassola reflects on his personal relationship with the oeuvre of renowned Sicilian art pop musician Franco Battiato: What the musician has vicariously and unwittingly passed on to him through his music, his knowledge of Western and non-Western mysticism, and his unique florence within the Italian music landscape.

They call you Maestro as in bar, teacher and you surely have taught me some important things. You are not the only one who has taught me those things, but you have done so in a luminous, unparalleled way.