'Who is Vladimir Luxuria? Who was she before being a member of parliament? Where did she start her battles for equality, freedom, and the recognition of rights? From the stage of the Muccassassina, lesbian-gay-trans party event and disco - as if it were a gigantic magnifying glass on the world - Vladimir Luxuria tells us about the submerged yet irrepressible world of diversity, of other beauty, of a world that is, however, close to us.
And from that stage - as if it were, this time, a mirror - Vladimir Luxuria tells himself as a stroboscopic ray of vitality, civil commitment, and freedom. In the wake of Pier Vittorio Tondelli's "Postmodern Weekend", Vladimir Luxuria describes the inside and outside of the disco as "the stage used to be scratched by the heels of a drag queen or to scream our animalism, our pride, our pacifism".'
According to Wikipedia, Vladimir Luxuria, born in 1965, is an Italian transgender activist, politician, television personality, and actress. She was the first openly transgender member of Parliament in Europe, and the world's second openly transgender MP after New Zealander Georgina Beyer. After the retirement of Beyer and Luxuria, there were no transgender MPs reported in the world, until 2011, when Anna Grodzka was elected to the Polish parliament.
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