Giò Stajano - La mia vita (non più) scandalosa

2014, Giò Stajano, Italian,

Original title: "La mia vita (non più) scandalosa. Scritti inediti di Giò Stajano" (My life (no longer) scandalous. Unpublished writings by Giò Stajano) by Giò Stajano.

Gioacchina Stajano, aka Giò, a famous character of the homo-trans Italian world, has always been labeled as a transgressive and scandalous person. In reality, she was desperately searching for an identity which, after ups and downs, she found reflected in the merciful Love of God and in faith in Christ. The book highlights the face of the great Giò, outlined by some unpublished writings that reveal her delicacy of soul and her profound spirituality.

According to Wikipedia, Countess Maria Gioacchina Stajano Starace Briganti di Panico, known simply as Giò Stajano (1931-2011), was an Italian nobleman, writer, journalist, actress, and transgender painter. In the 60s, before her mtf transition in 1983, she was the center of public attention as one of the first homosexual men publicly declared in Italy. She is remembered for a night swim in the Fontana della Barcaccia. She was said to have been inspired by Federico Fellini's scene of Anita Ekberg's bath in the Trevi Fountain in La dolce vita (1960).

With the birth of the gay movement, to which Giò Stajano never joined, and with the social changes of the late sixties, she became the symbol of the transgender revolution in Italy. In 1982 in Italy it became legal for people with gender dysphoria to change their gender, however still after operation and modification of external sexual characteristics. So, in 1983, Giò Stajano decided to undergo bottom surgery in Casablanca (Morocco) at the hands of Professor Bourou, taking the name of Maria Gioacchina Stajano Starace Briganti di Panico (always abbreviated as Giò Stajano). 

Then she returned to the limelight and gave her first interview to the journalist Francesco D. Caridi of Il Borghese, a weekly for which Giò Stajano had written articles of worldliness signed with the pseudonym "Pink Panther", where she targeted above all the Roman aristocracy. She died in a retirement home in Alezio, on July 26, 2011, at the age of 79.

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