From the Invisible to the Visible: Mapping Homosexual Proto–Festival from Seventies to Eighties

Abstract

Into the theoretical framework of Film Festival Studies, the article carries out a chronological and “cartographic” map of Italian film festivals linked to the homosexual revolution movements from the Seventies to Eighties. The article is the first necessary phase for a broader work that azalyze the relationships between homosexual movements and cinema through festival device. The aim of the article, therefore, is to demonstrate how already from the first proto-festivals, as experiences preceding institutionalized festivals, film festivals, events and manifestations were at the service of the community, like other media channels, as practices of visibility and “places” suitable for the birth and sedimentation of identity and political instances.