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In children's fairy tales, it is said that if you reach the multi-colored rainbow that curved in the sky after the spring rain and if you pass under it, you suddenly miraculously change your gender. The boy becomes a girl, the girl becomes a boy, and a merry confusion ensues... But it doesn't take the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault to know that fairy tales are always a reflection of reality, in which there really are girls and boys who wish to be of the opposite sex or are just attracted to one's own. And that turns out to be a problem. The problem is not with the boys and girls in question, although it has a serious impact on their lives, but with a significant part of society that wants to return them to "normalcy" (whatever that means). Which wants to fix them - even though there is nothing to fix. Which wants to heal them - even though there is nothing to heal. Which wants to punish them - although no one is guilty of anything.
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L'EUROPEO 91 "Under the rainbow" is first and foremost an uncompromising analysis of sexuality in its various dimensions, through the destinies of people, prisoners in their own bodies and wanting only one thing - the freedom to be themselves, not a projection of foreign complexes. As it should be.
AMONG THE SUBJECTS IN THE ISSUE
Anne Lister, also known as "Gentleman Jack" and her encounter with the prejudices of English society
Regarding the French knightly title "chevalier", which is awarded to men of special merit to France, and Charles d'Eon became the only one who had the right to use the title in the feminine gender, that is, to be called "knight"
Virginia Woolf, who was indeed feared by many (and rightly so)
Oscar Wilde, because he simply cannot do without him
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who, luckily for mankind, did not become a high official in the Russian Empire because of attraction to his own sex, but the great composer whom we idolize today
William Swang, born into slavery in 1860 and coined the term "drag queen"
Ernst Röhm, on whose homosexual shoulders stood the rise of the Nazi Party
Genius Jean Cocteau and actor Jean Marais - one of the most exciting love stories of the 20th century
Alan Turing, the father of artificial intelligence and the man who broke the most complex Nazi cipher, but failed to break the prejudices of his own community and was subjected to chemical castration
Yukio Mishima, the Japanese genius beyond sexuality
Sergey Paradzhanov – the worst boy of Soviet cinema
Andy Warhol and Basquiat - a story about history
Elton John, the new and far more talented Liberacci
Cinema and homosexuality – a lengthy analysis with philosophical elements
Correspondence with Michel Foucault, the most famous theorist of sexuality
The demonstrative persecutions against homosexuals in Bulgaria during socialism - a conversation with Prof. Mihail Gruev
This and much more in l'Europeo 91: Under the Rainbow