L'Europeo Magazine No. 91 | Under the Rainbow | June/July 2024
Under the Rainbow
Children's fairy tales tell us that if you reach the rainbow arching across the sky after a spring shower and pass beneath it, something miraculous happens: your gender is suddenly transformed. The boy becomes a girl, the girl a boy, and merry confusion ensues. Yet one need not turn to the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault to know that fairy tales are always reflections of reality. And reality indeed contains boys and girls who wish to belong to another gender, or who are simply attracted to their own. And this, it turns out, is seen as a problem.
The problem, however, does not belong to these boys and girls themselves, although it profoundly affects their lives. Rather, it belongs to a considerable part of society that seeks to return them to "normality"—whatever that may mean. A society that wishes to correct them, although there is nothing to correct. That wishes to cure them, although there is nothing to cure. That wishes to punish them, although no one is guilty of anything.
L’Europeo No. 91 | Under the Rainbow | June/July 2024 is, above all, an uncompromising examination of sexuality in its many dimensions, explored through the lives of people imprisoned within their own bodies and longing for only one thing: the freedom to be themselves rather than projections of other people's fears, prejudices, and insecurities. As indeed they should be.
AMONG THE FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE
- Anne Lister, better known as Gentleman Jack, and her confrontation with the prejudices of English society.
- The French chivalric title of Chevalier, traditionally bestowed upon men for distinguished service to France, and Charles d'Éon, the only recipient permitted to use the title in its feminine form—to be known as a female knight.
- Virginia Woolf, whom many genuinely feared—and with good reason.
- Oscar Wilde, because no such issue could possibly exist without him.
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who, fortunately for humanity, did not become a senior official in the Russian Empire because of his attraction to his own sex, but instead became the great composer we revere today.
- William Swann, born into slavery in 1860, who gave the world the term drag queen.
- Ernst Röhm, upon whose homosexual shoulders the rise of the Nazi Party was built.
- The genius Jean Cocteau and actor Jean Marais—one of the most compelling love stories of the twentieth century.
- Alan Turing, father of artificial intelligence and the man who cracked the Nazis' most sophisticated cipher, yet failed to overcome the prejudices of his own society and was subjected to chemical castration.
- Yukio Mishima, the Japanese genius beyond sexuality.
- Sergei Parajanov, the bad boy of Soviet cinema.
- Andy Warhol and Basquiat—a story about history itself.
- Elton John, the new and far more gifted Liberace.
- Cinema and homosexuality: an extensive analysis enriched with philosophical reflections.
- An imaginary conversation with Michel Foucault, the most influential theorist of sexuality.
- The public persecution of homosexuals in socialist Bulgaria—a conversation with Associate Professor Mihail Gruev.
All this and much more in L’Europeo No. 91: Under the Rainbow.
- • Language: Bulgarian
• Format: 22 x 26 cm
• Volume: 200
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