Abstract
In this essay I look at the commemorative practices surrounding two events that for many gay rights organizations have come to symbolize the effects of homophobia in Italy, and particularly Rome: Alfredo Ormando’s self-immolation in Piazza San Pietro in 1998 and the murder of Paolo Seganti in a Roman park in 2005. I will examine the forms the various commemorations for these two men have taken, such as plaques, candlelight vigils, sit-ins, art exhibitions, archives, and websites, and investigate how some of these forms offer resistant counter-memories to a dominant narrative while others risk relegating their subject to oblivion.
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