Massimo Consoli

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Massimo Consoli ( December 12, 1945 - November 4, 2007 in Rome ) was an Italian author , historian and LGBT activist. Consoli is known as " the father of the Italian gay movement " (in German, for example: father of the Italian gay movement).

The anarchist and historian Consoli wrote more than 30 books, including about Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Kurt Hiller . Consoli was a close friend of the American author Vito Russo and the Italian LGBT activist Mario Mieli . In 1998, the Italian State Archives of the Ministry of Culture acquired its extensive archive of Italian LGBT history.

Consoli died in Italy in November 2007.

Fonts

Cover of Viva la homosexualidad (1975).

Consoli was not only active as an author but also as a translator, here is a selection of his writings:

  • L'Attivista militante Kurt Hiller , 2007
  • Omosessualitá e Vampirismo , 2007
  • Diario di un Mostro , 2006
  • Manifesto Gay , 2006
  • Anarchico d'Amore , 2006 (translation and foreword of the Italian edition, author: Hubert Kennedy )
  • Ulrichs , 2005
  • Gay Day , 2005
  • Altri Amori , 2004
  • Storia di Franco , 2004
  • L'Amore Omosessuale , 2004 (translation, author: Edward Westermarck )
  • Andata & Ritorno , 2003
  • Gladius Firens , 2002 (translation, author: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs )
  • Independence Gay. All origini del Gay Pride , 2000
  • Bandiera Gay. Il Movimento Gay Italiano attraverso l'Archivio Massimo Consoli , 1999
  • Alla Scoperta dell'Amore , 1999 (translation, author: John Boswell )
  • Il Prostituto , 1999
  • Ecce Homo - L'omosessualità nella Bibbia , 1998
  • In Difesa Dell'Omosessualita'di Oscar Wilde , 1993 (translation, authors: Eduard Bernstein and W. Herzen)
  • George Platt Lynes , 1993
  • Killer Aids , 1993
  • Stonewall - Quando la Rivoluzione è Gay , 1990
  • Alitragedia degli incontri , 1988
  • Eros in India , 1993 (translation, author: Alain Daniélou )
  • Homocaust. Il nazismo e la persecuzione degli omosessuali , 1984
  • Il Comune di Roma e gli Omosessuali , 1979
  • Solo i froci vanno in Paradiso , 1977 ( reissued as Solo i gay vanno in paradiso in 1993 )
  • Viva L'Omosessualita , 1975
  • 16-22 , 1971
  • Appunti per una Rivoluzione Morale , 1971

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rex Wockner, Italian leader gay this , Windy City Times
  2. ^ Website of the Fondazione Massimo Consoli ( memento of July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 16, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Consoli, Massimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian author, historian and LGBT activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 2007
Place of death Rome , Italy