Arcigay Reggio Calabria "I Due Mari" is the Arcigay committee for the city, part of the national Italian LGBTQIA+ association. It works out of the Circolo Samarcanda on Via Emilio Cuzzocrea, a property confiscated from organised crime and turned over to community use.
From the same address it runs the Centro contro le discriminazioni LGBTQIA+ Calabria, the regional anti-discrimination centre, backed by the Prime Minister's Department for Equal Opportunities and the national anti-discrimination office. There is a welcome and listening desk, a legal desk, psychological consultation, a trans desk and a health desk with free anonymous HIV testing. A telephone helpline runs alongside them. The services cost nothing and are open to family members as well as to LGBTQIA+ people.
A youth group meets here too. The committee organises the Reggio Calabria Pride, trains municipal staff on anti-discrimination and holds conferences at the city's Universita per Stranieri Dante Alighieri.
This is a community space rather than a bar. It is where a visitor can make contact with the local community, ask a legal question or get tested.
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