Porpora Marcasciano - AntoloGaia. Vivere sognando...

2015, Italian, Porpora Marcasciano,

Original title: "AntoloGaia. Vivere sognando e non sognare di vivere: i miei anni Settanta" (AntoloGaia. Living dreaming and not dreaming of living: my seventies) by Porpora Marcasciano.

In 2016, Porpora Marcasciano published the second edition of the book with a slightly different name: "AntoloGaia. Sesso, genere e cultura degli anni '70" (AntoloGaia. Sex, gender and culture of the 70s).

Porpora Marcasciano starts with herself and, through her biography, tells us about the seventies from a special point of observation. Hers is a deviant and scandalous experience, a "continuous crush", made up of manifestations, passions, fears, dreams, and sexuality, in which she crosses many small and large characters, builds the first LGBT communities, the first "pride" and the nascent gay movement, which enters into a relationship with the revolutionary movement of those years pushing it to become aware of itself and its body. A reality in which trans, gays, lesbians, and women revolutionize not only their lives but consequently the whole world.

A "fabulous" story, until it is tragically overwhelmed by AIDS and the instrumental narrative of those who describe the virus as the "gay plague". From joyful, the atmosphere becomes gloomy, and the sad feeling of helplessness takes over among the protagonists of that season, erasing the memory of a decade. Up to the present day, when everything seems to have been "normalized" by the laws of the market.

Porpora reacts to this removal by reconstructing that history and the links between modern and postmodern, necessary to rework a thought and a culture capable of not being neutralized.

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