3 October 2021

BDSM and Fetish at Venice Film Festival

A sexual adventure of domination and submission turns into an intimate dialogue between two generations which, starting from lost loves and AIDS, leads to a subdued, passionate cry of life. La dernière séance Written and directed by Gianluca Matarrese, La dernière séance ( The last chapter ) was presented at […]
21 July 2023

A comprehensive (and annotated) list of all LGBTQ+ flags

The rainbow flag is probably the best known of the LGBTIQ+ flags; however, there are many others – more or less widespread – that express the pride of the multiple communities gathered behind the acronym LGBTIQ+: from the bisexual community to the transsexual one, from the aromantic to the intersex […]
8 May 2025

Tom of Finland Day: Celebrating a Fetish&Kinky Art Icon

Tom of Finland, the pseudonym of Touko Valio Laaksonen (1920–1991), was a Finnish artist renowned for his unmistakable homoerotic drawings. Laaksonen began his career as a commercial illustrator but was already producing what he called his “dirty drawings” in his youth—illustrations of muscular men in overtly homosexual scenarios that would […]
6 September 2025

Corpi di Carta – First Event: “Il piacere maschile” book presentation with Fabrizio Quattrini at Skyline Club Rome

A new queer literary series in Rome Leather Club Roma, together with the Mario Mieli Homosexual Culture Circle, launches a brand-new series: “Corpi di Carta – Books and desires that talk about pleasure, sex and freedom”, curated by Why Not. A cycle of literary events placing sexuality, pleasure, and bodies […]