Alle Radici dell’Orgoglio

The proposal

From the "Buon Costume" vice-squad raids to the squares of ’72: the story of how LGBT+ pride was born

How did Italy move from contempt, media pillory and police persecution to awareness and the birth of the LGBTQIA+ movement?

Drawn from the author’s thirty years of research and from his essay of the same name, Alle Radici dell’Orgoglio (“At the Roots of Pride”) is a performative, archive-based journey through post-war Italy.

Before the revolution of the F.U.O.R.I.! movement and the historic demonstrations of 1971/1972, homosexuality in our country was buried in silence, pathologised and reduced to a matter of social custom or crime reporting.

In a gripping, civic-minded narrative, Giorgio Umberto Bozzo interweaves the rhythm of theatrical monologue with the dramatised reading of period texts and the projection of more than 40 original historical documents (newspaper articles, court records and period magazines).

An immersive, ironic and moving journey that shows how a community took the floor to turn stigma into liberation.