Carlo Antonelli and Francesco Urbano Ragazzi

With a powerful exclamation mark and a comic bomb on the cover, this volume makes available to the general public again the very rare pages of the magazine “Fuori!”, the historic print organ of the Italian Revolutionary Homosexual United Front and the country’s first monthly magazine of sexual revolution. Adding two exclamation points to the original title, “Fuori!!!” brings “Fuori!!” back to the present day, confronting the reader with an epochal passage whose significance is often underestimated. If today the freedom to live one’s sexual orientation and identity is an increasingly accepted shared value, we owe it to the group of women and men who 50 years ago – starting in Turin and then throughout Italy – courageously waged a struggle for liberation, clashing with the violence, dullness and conformity of the entire Italian society. The publication consists of the faithful reprinting of the first thirteen, legendary issues of the magazine and thus documents a glorious season of the struggle for civil rights: that from 1971 to 1974. This new publishing project thus proceeds from issue 0, distributed almost like a punk fanzine in the clandestine meeting places of the time, to “Out! Woman,” the thirteenth issue and first to be produced by women only. The volume contains photostatic reproductions of the original print issues and collects them into a single almanac. Accompanying the book is a critical introduction signed by the project’s editors Carlo Antonelli and Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, and their long interview with the founder of “Fuori!”, Angelo Pezzana.(Source IBS.it)