PORPORA MARCASCIANO is a sociologist, activist, writer, and municipal counselor in the city of Bologna, Italy. She is the honorary president of the Trans Identity Movement (MIT) and author of Dawn of the Bad Transwoman: Stories, Gazes and Experiences of My Transgender Generation.

FRANCESCO PASCUZZI is an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is the coeditor of the collection Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema (2015). He lives in Somerset County, New Jersey.

SANDRA WATERS is the managing editor of Italian Quarterly and coedits the Other Voices of Italy series for Rutgers University Press. She is the coeditor of The Spaces and Places of Horror. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Foreword: "Giving Voice to the Italian Trans Community," Sara Galli and Mohammad Jamali

Translator's Note, Francesco Pascuzzi and Sandra Waters

Preface to the Italian edition: "The Unbearable Lightness of Gender in History and Biography," Laura Schettini
Chapter One

Le début (1973-1976)

Somewhere in the West

Traces of Dreams

The Source of Consciousness

Coming Out

It Happened

Trip

Other Dimensions

Changing the World

The Underground

Technical Rehearsals of Resistance

The Best of Youth

Rebel Music

Exodus, Displacement, Transition

Escape
Chapter Two

1977: Dreaming and Utopia

And 1977 Exploded!

The First Lesbian

We Want Everything!

Alice in the City, Transversalism, Situationism, Fantasy

Strawberries and Blood

Between Class and Gender Consciousness

Nomadic Tribes

The Crush Continuous

The Biggest Piazza Was Too Small

The Transvestite Cries Out for Revenge in the Presence of the Phallus

Porporino

La dolce vita

Lud

With the Faguettes or With the Chavs

Being Overwhelmed

Flora and Fauna

Good Morning, Night

The First of May

Distress and Self-Awareness

Living in a Dream and Not Dreaming about Living
Chapter Three

Extravagance (1978-1982)

Zanza

Valentina Sanna Cortese

Narciso

The Festival of Poets at Castelporziano

Capo Rizzuto and Gay Camping

Gay Activism and Its First Conference

Mario Mieli

Royal Family and Self-Defense Techniques

Monte Caprino

Extravaganza

Pisa

Desiring

Bologna and the Grand Duchy of Pistoia

Lesbians and/or Feminists

Punk

The '80s Began

Valerie

Theater

1981 and the First Gay New Year

Trans Manifesto for 164

Gay Occupations

Beaches

The Cassero
Chapter Four

Transition, Epic Passage (1983...)

Then Night Came!

The Gay Plague

Blows to the Heart

Author Acknowledgments

Appendices

Timelines

Key Words

Porpora's Publications

Notes on Contributors