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Despite state-sanctioned antipathy towards homosexuality, queer content began to proliferate in Italian art during the mid-to-late 1940s. It is now a commonplace that representations of homosexual characters in this period fell into a paradigm of fascists-criminals-paedophiles, but this essay challenges that notion. Tracing cultural representations of male homosexuality in Italy demonstrates that vilification was only one strategy employed by Italian artists of the early post-war years. Indeed, writers and filmmakers alike utilised increasingly realistic depictions based on actual cultural practices of homosexual men. In particular, Alberto Lattuada’s film  Il bandito  (1946) and Angelo Del Boca’s short story collection  Dentro mi è nato l’uomo  (1948) exemplify this trend. Analysing and contextualising these efforts, this essay contributes to a cultural history of homosexuality in Italy by elaborating on two tropes – cruising and egalitarian relationship structures – which make it possible to reconceive both how homosexual men were represented and how they may have lived.

Queer Bandits and Partisans: Reimagining Male Homosexuality in Early Post-War Italy