On Saturday, January 27, at 3:00 PM, in Padua, at the Spolato Center in via Boccaccio 80, the presentation of the book "Mascolinità devianti: dall’ex Litorale austriaco all’ex Venezia Giulia" will take place, published by EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste.

The author, Marco Reglia, will be present at the event.

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, attention is focused on what the "omocausto" was during the Nazi extermination. The origins of this hatred are narrated in the book that will be presented. The former Italian Venezia Giulia, formerly the Austrian Litorale, was an original laboratory of national tensions that culminated in the Great War and the dictatorships of the early twentieth century.

The role of masculinity and its deviance, especially male homosexuality, had its own specificities in these territories, both due to the penal approach of the Empire that governed these lands until the end of 1918, and the frontier fascism that accompanied Italy in its establishment in the new eastern provinces.

A substantial contribution of unpublished sources, from the archives of the former Italian provinces, now in Slovenia and Croatia, supported by oral sources, highlights a repression much more significant than previously emerged in historiography, allowing the author to focus on a specific periodization linked to the strong militarization of the border territories.