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Remembrance, Arcigay Foggia in Brussels for the presentation of the exhibition "L'Isola degli Arrusi" at the European Parliament: "The places of confinement on the Tremiti Islands should become national monuments."“
Bologna, January 13, 2025 – Alice Rizzi, president of the Arcigay Foggia “Le Bigotte” committee, will also be present at the closing ceremony of the photographic exhibition. The Island of Arrusi by Luana Rigolli, on display in Brussels from January 14th to 16th, at the European Parliament. The exhibition recounts the forced confinement of 45 homosexuals from Catania on the Tremiti Islands during the fascist regime. Through powerful images of the confined men's faces, photographed directly from the confinement files held at the Central State Archives in Rome, The Island of Arrusi It evokes a past that must not be forgotten.
The closing event of the exhibition, scheduled for January 16th at 4.30 pm, will see the participation of the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, of the photographer Luana Rigolli, of the MEPs Mario Furore And Alessandro Zan, Of Vladimir Luxuria, of the Italian senator Alessandra Maiorino, of the Mayor of the Municipality of Tremiti Annalisa Lisci and the president of Arcigay Foggia Alice Rizzi. During the event, Rizzi will appeal to the mayor of Tremiti Islands to request that the municipal administration request recognition as a national monument for the large room where the inmates were held, so that the place can become a symbol of the fight against discrimination and oppression.
“All of Arcigay and in particular the Arcigay Foggia committee are working to give voice to the history of the confinement of homosexual people on the island of San Domino in the Tremiti Islands, one of the places where homosexual men were relegated during Fascism, guilty of not having embodied the social and sexual roles imposed by the regime,” declares Claudio Tosi, Head of Culture at the national secretariat of Arcigay. "We discover the faces of the 45 "arrusi" from Catania confined to San Domino from the mugshots on the confinement records held at the Central State Archives and documented by the sensitive and meticulous work of photographer Luana Rigolli. Their stories come to life again in the headquarters of the European Parliament, an institutional place where the memory of what happened is fundamental to the construction of a Europe that must firmly support the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. This will be a useful opportunity to insist on the recognition of the "camerone" where the confined were locked up at night as a place of national remembrance, a place that must continue to bear witness to its history today," concludes Tosi.
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Remembrance, Arcigay Foggia in Brussels for the presentation of the exhibition "L'Isola degli Arrusi" at the European Parliament: "The places of confinement on the Tremiti Islands should become national monuments."“
Bologna, January 13, 2025 – Alice Rizzi, president of the Arcigay Foggia “Le Bigotte” committee, will also be present at the closing ceremony of the photographic exhibition. The Island of Arrusi by Luana Rigolli, on display in Brussels from January 14th to 16th, at the European Parliament. The exhibition recounts the forced confinement of 45 homosexuals from Catania on the Tremiti Islands during the fascist regime. Through powerful images of the confined men's faces, photographed directly from the confinement files held at the Central State Archives in Rome, The Island of Arrusi It evokes a past that must not be forgotten.
The closing event of the exhibition, scheduled for January 16th at 4.30 pm, will see the participation of the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, of the photographer Luana Rigolli, of the MEPs Mario Furore And Alessandro Zan, Of Vladimir Luxuria, of the Italian senator Alessandra Maiorino, of the Mayor of the Municipality of Tremiti Annalisa Lisci and the president of Arcigay Foggia Alice Rizzi. During the event, Rizzi will appeal to the mayor of Tremiti Islands to request that the municipal administration request recognition as a national monument for the large room where the inmates were held, so that the place can become a symbol of the fight against discrimination and oppression.
“All of Arcigay and in particular the Arcigay Foggia committee are working to give voice to the history of the confinement of homosexual people on the island of San Domino in the Tremiti Islands, one of the places where homosexual men were relegated during Fascism, guilty of not having embodied the social and sexual roles imposed by the regime,” declares Claudio Tosi, Head of Culture at the national secretariat of Arcigay. "We discover the faces of the 45 "arrusi" from Catania confined to San Domino from the mugshots on the confinement records held at the Central State Archives and documented by the sensitive and meticulous work of photographer Luana Rigolli. Their stories come to life again in the headquarters of the European Parliament, an institutional place where the memory of what happened is fundamental to the construction of a Europe that must firmly support the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. This will be a useful opportunity to insist on the recognition of the "camerone" where the confined were locked up at night as a place of national remembrance, a place that must continue to bear witness to its history today," concludes Tosi.
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