(Click here to read an interview with Michelle Alfano.) Monica Meneghetti, whose book What the Mouth Wants was published in 2017, is the author of the essay “I’m Queer and Italian-Canadian – Coming Out Was Twice as Hard” ( The Globe and Mail, May 28, 2018).
Michelle Alfano documents the parenting of a gender-transitioning child in her memoir The Unfinished Dollhouse (2017). Salvatore Antonio, in his play In Gabriel’s Kitchen (2007), depicts the suicide of a young gay man whose family is unable to accept his homosexuality. Christopher DiRaddo is the author of Geography of Pluto (2014), a novel that presents the emerging self-acceptance of a young gay man in Montreal’s urban landscape. Most notable among these is his play-turned-feature-film Mambo Italiano (2003). The subjects of the documentary are writers from across Canada, including Steve Galluccio who broke new ground nearly twenty years ago with his plays about the difficulties of Italian-Canadian gay and trans characters trying to gain acceptance. The Association of Italian Canadian Writers (AICW) and the Queer Studies in Quebec Research Group (ÉRÉQQ) have joined forces to produce this video, which aims to broaden the understanding and increase sensibility towards queer identities and everyday lived realities. In the forthcoming documentary, Creative Spaces: Queer and Italian Canadian, a group of writers discuss their lives, work, and experiences as members of the LGBTQ+ Italian-Canadian community. In some circles, being queer is still taboo. Relatively few Canadian writers and artists of Italian heritage openly identify as queer through their writings and in interviews.
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