Thursday 11 December 2025, at the Ida Desandré Library in Aosta, Arcigay Queer VdA André Zanotto, in collaboration with AIACE VDA, will project “QUIR – A Palermo Love Story”, the latest film of Nicola Bellucci. The evening will begin at 19.00 with a community aperitif, followed by 20.00 from the projection.
The initiative It is part of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of Arcigay national (1985–2025) and also recalls the history of the Arcigay Committee of Palermo, founded in 1980, one of the first nuclei of the movement in Italy.
The evening will be attended by Natasha Maesi, national president of Arcigay, who comments: "Celebrating Arcigay's fortieth anniversary means traversing a history of achievements, but also of wounds, courage, and faces we don't want to forget. Being in Aosta with "QUIR – A Palermo Love Story" has a profound meaning for me.
Arcigay Palermo was born in 1980 in response to a wound that has marked our community forever: the’Giarre murder, the killing of Giorgio and Toni, from which one of the first nuclei of our movement took shape.
This is a story of people who have never stopped being there, like Massimo Milani, a pillar of the Palermo queer community, and Gino Campanella, a companion in life and struggle, whose recent passing leaves us with a great void. This film is also a way to say goodbye to him and continue to preserve his legacy.
As we celebrate Arcigay's fortieth anniversary, we look back on this history with responsibility: every right won is born from exposed bodies and a stubborn love that has never given up.»
The film
“QUIR” tells the story of Massimo Milani And Gino Campanella, a queer couple together for over forty years, FUORI! activists and central figures in the birth of Arcigay in Palermo.
The projection takes on a particular value today after the disappearance of Gino Campanella in June 2025: an occasion to remember his political and human legacy.
Alongside them, the film intertwines the lives of Vivian, Ernesto And Charly, providing a choral portrait of a lively, contradictory and resistant queer Palermo.
“QUIR” was presented at the Taormina Film Fest and obtained the Pride Award 2024 at the Florence Queer Festival and how Best Social Film of the Year at the Tulipani di Seta Nera Festival.
