Arcigay Modena "Matthew Shepard" is the city's LGBTQIA+ volunteer organisation. It has worked in Modena since 2000 as the local committee of Arcigay, which has been active across Italy since 1985, and it takes its name from the American student whose killing in 1998 became a landmark case of anti-gay violence.
The premises on Viale IV Novembre are where the groups meet. There is a women's group, a youth group, a trans group called T.a(MO), the lesbian collective ArciDykes and a role-playing circle. Alongside that the association runs a listening line, sexual health work, teacher training and school projects, a reading group, theatre and sport, and it is one of the organisations behind Modena Pride.
For a visitor it is the address to write to if you want to know what is actually happening in the city, and the place a resident is sent when they need legal or psychological support.
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