Giò Stajano
Countess Maria Gioacchina Stajano Starace Briganti di Panico, known simply as Giò Stajano (1931–2011), was an Italian socialite, writer, journalist, actress, and painter. In the 1960s, before her Gender transition, transition and Gender-affirming surgery (male-to-female), gender reassignment surgery (1983), she was known as one of the first publicly out gay men in Italy. It is said that her night swim in the Fontana della Barcaccia, Barcaccia Fountain inspired Federico Fellini's scene featuring Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain in ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960). Life Early life Giò Stajano was born 11 December 1931 in a small village in Salento, Sannicola, in the Kingdom of Italy under Fascism. Her father was Count Riccardo Stajano Briganti di Panico, and her mother was Fanny Starace, the only daughter of a fascist gerarca (high official), Achille Starace. At birth her gender was assigned male, and her parents named her Gioacchino Stajano Starace Briganti di Panico, abbreviate ...
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Sannicola
Sannicola is a town and ''comune'' in the Italian province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re .... History Sannicola the town contains an old Roman defensive tower to protect it against Saracene, Norman and Venetian invaders. References External links Cities and towns in Apulia Localities of Salento {{Puglia-geo-stub ...
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