That’s Queer

Hey, I found your nose. It was sticking in my business. Those of us old enough to remember the 1960s American [...]

Italy's recent lockdown forced many of us to come up with something to occupy our time. Northern Italy was the first [...]

Why is it that being bullied as a kid can stay with you for a lifetime? I'd had a cappuccino with [...]

Our 25-year-old friend Nicolo came to dinner a couple of weeks ago. Suddenly, over pasta, he told my husband Alberto and [...]

Play is the way that intelligent animals learn. It's also the way children discover who they are and how they fit [...]

It’s Saturday evening and I’m hanging out with my English speaking "Meet Up "group on Milan's Via Lecco. By midnight, the [...]

I’m sitting with my friend Fabrizio in a shabby chic cafe that charges more for table fees and service than it [...]

A common lament among expats, outsiders and newcomers to Italy — as well as from some who have lived here for [...]

Facing an increasingly hostile Italian political environment, one whose bias extends to the Roman Catholic Church, established social norms, and even [...]

Gay literature is a testimony to love, pain and suffering. As with any group, particularly a minority group, it is also [...]

It's a big deal in the gay community when a film that deals directly with homosexual desire makes it to the [...]