ABSTRACT
The epilogue returns to current events, reflecting on the social position taken on by gay men in Italy after the approval of the law for Civil Unions in 2016. Fanon hypothesizes that the origin of racism is a repressed perverse sexual desire that white men and women feel for black men (while black men are incapable of homosexuality). He therefore creates a shield against racism made of homophobia and misogyny. But the inverse is also possible: in the United States and Europe, after the triumph of marital rights for lesbian and gay couples, political rhetoric has emerged in which restrictive immigration laws are justified on the basis of the necessity to defend women and LGBTQ+ people from the homophobia of migrants. This is a rhetoric through which sexual minorities unload the weight of sexual abjection onto racialized subjects. In Italy, this runs the risk that a progressive, though racist, defense of the homosexual family echoes Salvini’s neofascist defense of the heterosexual family. The epilogue is inspired by a media scandal that hit gay bathhouses in Italy about a year after the approval of civil unions: inviting LGBTQI+ movements and subjects to take charge of the sexual abjection that sexual minorities represent, and to make it an entry point for an ethic of tolerance.
