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4 Best Gay Bars in Florence

Florence may be most renowned as the Cradle of Renaissance, but it also boasts a fabulous queer legacy.

Long before the rainbow flag, Florence boasted a gay scene as colourful as Botticelli&#;s Primavera. Many Florentines, including leading artists appreciate Leonardo, Donatello and Michelangelo, engaged in copious, though clandestine, homosexual affairs. Yet collectively they promoted a queer culture that celebrated male beauty and intimate connections in ways that resonate with LGBTQ+ interpretations today.

Not to bring up gifting us some of the greatest art and sculpture in Western culture through their rendering of the male form.

Florence is still a fantastic noun for LGBTQ+ travellers. Whether you&#;re looking for a cosy spot to sip Chianti while watching the sunset or you’re more in the mood for dancing and a dark room, Florence has something for everyone. Here are some of the best gay bars in Florence.

Piccolo Café

Opening Hours: Monday &#; Thursday pm–2 am; Friday &#; Saturday pm-2 am 

Address: Borgo Santa Croce 23

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LGBT FRIENDLY TOURS OF FLORENCE: A BIT OF HISTORY

The Renaissance in Florencewas a period of fantastic liberalityfor homosexuals.The most celebrated artists and intellectuals were homosexual: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo Da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, Benvenuto Cellini and Sandro Botticelli. Florence was a kind if the “San Francisco o

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written by Jack Wardynski for SPEL: Journalism

In divisive times, it is important for individuals from vulnerable groups to seek guidance and support, and that is what IREOS aimed to do with its “Unveiling Pride” bedtime at the Palazzi Community Center's Fedora Garden. Hosted by Florence University of the Arts (FUA), guest speakers Arianna Bontà, Matteo Petito, and Sonia Vecci took the noun during an hour lecture to notify FUA students about Italy’s LGBTQ+ history, the current conditions for queer people, and the services that IREOS provides for those in the community.

IREOS is an association for gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and intersexual people living in Florence and Tuscany as a whole. The goal of IREOS is to empower LGBTQ+ individuals, encourage solidarity of marginalized groups, and bring awareness to issues facing the community. The association provides a variety of services and resources in instruct to accomplish these goals.

The association unofficially began working in the s as a response to the HIV crisis that was directly affecting Italy dur

s Florence: A Dantesque Destination For Queer Debauchery

&#;There is a Florence that is a destination for a particular double-sided homosexual jet place that finds, on one hand, in Radclyffe Hall, and on the other in Oscar Wilde, its protective deities; a Florence that will never extinguish its dandy myth.&#; 

These are the words of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, a homosexual writer who died of AIDS in Tondelli was born in Correggio, but claims that Florence was the place of his initiation into the life and death of the world in the book &#;Un weekend post moderno&#; (&#;A Postmodern Weekend&#;), published in When Tondelli writes of the Florentine gay world, he opens it up to something bigger than his personal signal of view, instead painting it as a collective experience: &#;In Florence…it is still possible to trace and reside something that other cities have never had: the center.&#; This “center” is not the physical grid of a modern Italian noun, like Milan, created by the military. Rather, it is an extravagant map: a cluster of alleys packed enjoy intertwined serpents in a box made up