Abstract
In 1979 the Italian theatrical production offered plenty of plays centred upon gay themes, whilst television had already been displaying various characters – mostly from the music scene – whose gender identity and sexual orientation were not seen by the public as “traditional”. In the same year, the fifteen-year-old company “Bagaglino”, run by Mario Castellacci and Pier Francesco Pingitore, abandoned the genre of cabaret and started a new course putting on stage a musical comedy called Oh Gay!, trying to take advantage of the huge success of the Italian-French film La cage aux folles. The comedy is about a gay couple involved in the imaginary kidnapping of the Pope and it combines satire about the gloomy situation of Rome in the Years of Lead with a bland mockery of the multiplication of LGBT people in Italy.
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