3 October 2025

Corpi di Carta – Fourth session: “Revenge Porn” – Presentation of “Petricore” by Matteo Zanini

The series Corpi di Carta – Books and desires that speak of pleasure, sex and freedom is the series curated by Why Not and promoted by Leather Club Roma and the Mario Mieli Homosexual Culture Circle. A path that brings literature into the heart of the queer and fetish community, […]
30 September 2025

Corpi di Carta – Third session: “BDSM” – Presentation of “I Love BDSM” and “BDSM. A Guide for Explorers of Extreme Eroticism” by Ayzad

Corpi di Carta – Books and desires that speak of pleasure, sex and freedom is the new literary series curated by Why Not and promoted by Leather Club Roma and the Mario Mieli Homosexual Culture Circle. A cycle of meetings that uses books as tools of dialogue and liberation, tackling […]
20 September 2025

Corpi di Carta – Second session: “Sexuality and addiction” – Presentation of “Ragazzi Chimici” by A. Infante and A. Mauri

A new queer literary series in Rome Leather Club Roma, together with the Mario Mieli Homosexual Culture Circle, promotes the birth of a new series: “Corpi di Carta – Books and desires that speak of pleasure, sex and freedom”, curated by Why Not. A cycle of literary meetings that puts […]
6 September 2025

Literary series: Corpi di Carta – Books and desires that speak of pleasure, sex and freedom

“Corpi di Carta – Books and desires that speak of pleasure, sex and freedom” is born in Rome, a cycle of literary appointments that weaves together culture, activism and sexuality. Curated by Why Not – Book and promoted by Leather Club Roma together with the Mario Mieli Homosexual Culture Circle, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]