Aerial view of a part of San Domino. This island, part of the Tremiti Arcipelago, used to be a place where Fascist Italy exiled homosexuals and "sexual deviants" (usually, but not always, transgenders of either direction and nonviolent sexual offenders). When the island reached capacity, most exile sentences were assigned to the Eritrean island of Nora, whence the San Matteo Correctional Facility was built for the purpose in 1957, and, due to the higher standard of living and the rarity of posts, San Domino became a "Golden exile" spot for the sons and daughters of people high up in the social hierarchy.
When in 1982 homosexuality was decriminalized and sexual deviancy was narrowed down to nonviolent sexual offenses (while "aggressive crossdressing", as it was referred to, became a civil offense) with a prison sentence and not exile, and with the Rutelli Amnesty (from the name of the proposer) allowing the exiled still serving sentences to go back home, while the condemned to Nora left as soon as they could (thus leading the island to go from 1599 inhabitants in 1981 to 255 the following year) for Eritrea or Lybia, almost half of the people still on San Domino decided that they wanted to stay and live on the island. Over time, San Domino became a LGBTQ hotspot, a known-unknown paradise where sexual minorities in Italy could escape the rest of Italy's mostly conservative culture to expressed themselves, however briefly.
As time went on, attitudes regarding LGBTQ people relaxed in Italy and its colonies (also thanks to a clever use of both traditional cultural figures and a willful misunderstanding of Evola's ideas), and, in 2017,
femminelli and
maschielli were allowed to legally change name and sex, and homosexual couples were allowed to have some of the rights granted to heterosexual married couples (though both giving the bond the name of "marriage" and the option of sharing propriety is still considered off-limits). As a result, both Nora and San Domino became icons for the Italian LGBTQ community: one for the struggle it gone went throught, the other for the successes it achieved.
Nowadays San Domino is a major party tourism hotspot: nary a day in Summer passes without seeing at least two people not from the island and one non-Italian; and the Pride Event (traditionally held every 30th of July, as that's when the Rutelli Amnesty was declared) is the largest of all of Italy. Naturally this causes plenty of Somalians and Eritreans (with Outer Abyssinians too busy in hating foeigners to give them much thought) to grumble, lamenting "degeneration", but their voices on the matter are mostly ignored.
Concept art of "Roberto Braghequadre", one of the main characters of
Il Gazzettino dei Minuscoli, a comic series parodying the cartoon strips that could be found on
Il Corriere dei Piccoli and other Italian children's comics in the Fifties-Sixties. Supposed to mock the overly glamorous depictions of
balilla activities and the contrived plots that could be often found in the original version, Roberto is an aggressive, loudmouthed, and overly enthusiastic
balilla that in his efforts to prove his patriotism and willingness to serve the Duce often puts himself and others in grave danger, saved only by blatant deus ex machina or by having his opponents take pity on him. The strip is considered extremely controversial, but it's often defended on the basis that it doesn't mock Fascism as a whole, but "brainless Fascism", as the creators put it.