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This important and timely book shows how LGBT people ended up and suffered in psychiatric institutions under Italian fascism. Gabriella Romano describes very vividly how same-sex desiring people and their families, how nurses and doctors navigated between cooperation with and resistance to the repressive system. The books innovative approach makes clear that queer historians need to look not only at penal, but also at medical logics of persecution. It rescues long marginalized voices from oblivion and from being once more silenced by present-day homo- and transphobia. * Benno Gammerl, Professor for History of Gender and Sexuality, European University Institute, Italy *

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Gabriella Romano is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an independent documentary filmmaker. Her main area of interest is the history of homosexuality, with a specific focus on the fascist regime years. She is the author of The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy. The Case of G. (2019), which was also published the same year in Italian, and of Il Mio Nome è Lucy. Il XX secolo nei ricordi di una transessuale (2009), based on the first interview released by Lucy Salani, MtoF who survived Fascism and deportation to Dachau.

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