Io sono un gay.. e vorrei sapere da voi.. se e' un problema per un uoma gay.. particolarmente per un straniero vivere in Italia? Mi ricordo qualcuno che mi ha detto, tutti gli uomini gay in Italia dev'essere vivere "in the closet". Adesso ho 53 anni.. e mi pare e' troppo tardi vivere in the closet. Se potreste dirmi la vostra opinione, mi fa piacere. Grazie mille

Well generally speaking I do not think you will need to stay in the closet. A few years back I had a group of friend I was used to go out with and some of thm where gay (lesbian to be exact ) - It was no problem at all. I do not think there will be any issue but this is of course generally speaking ( there are always people who are prejudice against some sort of minority I assume ) - Hopefully you will receive some more feedback on this very interesting question.

Insomma non credo tu avrai problemi uscendo dal closet in Italia.

PS Questo film e' divertente e francese ma forse e' applicabile anche all' Italia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243493/

Un bellissimo film Italiano disponibile a Netflix e'
Le fate ignoranti
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274497/
Anche Il bagno turco e' un film Italiano

Paolo,

Grazie per l'informazione e anche' per la raccomandazione dei film. Ho visto Le Fate Ignoranti l'anno scorso. Era un film bellissimo.. Stasera infatti, vedro' Il Bagno Turco!

Thanks for the reply to my question and also for the film recommendations. I have seen Le Fate.. it was a wonderful film. Tonight, I am going to watch Il Bagno!

Roberto

Ciao is4b2rd,
I use to live in Italy untill dicember, I know lot of gay and there is no problem at all....

Maybe ofcorse you might have some cultural problems in little community, but not so much at all...

ciao
G

Grazie mille Guido! Sono cresciuto in un piccolo quartiere Italiano/Siciliano negli Stati Uniti, quindi conosco alcune cose culturale Italiane. :-D Una domanda per favore... il tuo cognome.. e' viene dal cognome Ganci forse? Il cognome dei miei bisnonni era Ganci, dalla Sicilia.

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Thanks Guido, I grew up in a small community of Italians and Sicilians in the United States, so somewhat familiar with the culture. A question, does your last name come from Ganci by any chance? My great-grandparents had a last name of Ganci, they were from Sicily.


Ciao

Si la mia famiglia è di Gangi, ma si spostarno a Palermo moltissimi anni fa...
So che ci sono tantissimi Ganci in sicilia ancora...

have you been in Italy?!?

ahh I forgot to ask you..
Do you have some pics from your little Italo/american place?
Would be interesting to see some pics from all the little italy around the globe..

cheers
G

Guido,

Si' faccio un viaggio quasi ogni anno nell'ultimi otto anni. Mi piace l'Italia anche se ci sono tante problemi, e' un posto l'unico nel mondo. Devo dire che forse magari anche perche' la mia famiglia e' d'origine Italiana/Siciliana. Ho alcuni parenti in Sicilia anche in Toscana. Non so se io ho delle foto dal mio "North End" come questa zona viene chiamato, ma cerchero'.

This all just kind of reminded me of the Seinfeld episode about being gay..."not that there is anything wrong with that"

No thanks to Elaine, Jerry must work hard to prove he is straight when a college reporter mistakenly reports that he and George are gay, "not that there is anything wrong with that." Things really get out of hand when the article is picked up by the New York Post. Jerry ends up dating the college reporter to clear his name, but all does not go well.

Running Gag: Someone saying "Not that there's anything wrong with it". When this episode was first presented to NBC, they thought it was an absolute disaster. One of the main problems was that it was far too racy for public, and knew that it would offend the gay and lesbian couple. Later, as they were discussing how they could fix the insults to gays, someone in the meeting was saying that there's nothing wrong with being gay. This comment led to Jerry proposing the "not that there's anything wrong with that" line, which turned out to be a huge hit. The gay and lesbian communties especially liked this episode.

Guido,

Ecco l'informazione del mio "North End".

http://www.northeastnews.net/castle/columbus-park.html (C'e' una foto della mia chiesa qui)