This is the promoting committee for Arcigay in Parma, the local end of Italy's oldest and largest LGBTQ+ organisation. It works on rights and visibility in the city and is one of the groups behind Parma Pride.
The name is the point of it. Aldo Braibanti was a poet and playwright who in 1968 became the only person in Italian history convicted of plagio, a fascist-era offence of mental subjugation. The case was brought by the father of the young man he was involved with, and everyone understood at the time that what was on trial was his homosexuality, since nothing else on the statute book could be used against him. The argument the conviction set off ran on for years, and the law was struck down in 1981 without ever being applied again.
The committee has no premises of its own and works out of the city's wider network of venues and public spaces.
The people in this picture are AI-generated.
