Trans venues in Rome

[Emma_Thorne]

Isn’t it amazing that we can even consider checking out possible Trans venues in Rome. In my lifetime at one point the local Parish priest ruled the roost and just about anything that was different or fun was a mortal sin. Good luck to you honey and enjoy yourself xx

[Adrian]

From my experience last year traveling as a girl in Naples and Sicily – just dress up and go out and enjoy yourself. There is no need to seek out Trans-friendly venues. Perhaps steer clear of the Vatican City but the rest of the Italians appear to be pretty unfazed by transgender tourists…

This blog proposes that this is because they are so unaware of things Trans they don’t notice.

Quote:

The simple fact is this: queer history and culture is everywhere, and Rome is no exception. I went to this city expecting to feel isolated by my trans identity, but instead I found bittersweet graffiti and deities, restaurants and history.

I prefer to think they noticed and don’t care.

Now…if you manage to get your bottom pinched I will be pretty jealous.. enjoy life!

[Deleted User]

Adrian wrote:

Now…if you manage to get your bottom pinched I will be pretty jealous.. enjoy life!

My goodness yes, to be a girl in Rome, sigh. Enjoy la dolce vita

[Emma_Thorne]

Adrian wrote:

From my experience last year traveling as a girl in Naples and Sicily – just dress up and go out and enjoy yourself. There is no need to seek out Trans-friendly venues. Perhaps steer clear of the Vatican City but the rest of the Italians appear to be pretty unfazed by transgender tourists…

Doesn’t pretty much everyone in Vatican City wear a dress?

Adrian wrote:

[/quote]Now…if you manage to get your bottom pinched I will be pretty jealous.. enjoy life![/quote]

I completely agree! It is one of my life’s ambitions to have my bottom pinched on the Piazza!

[Deleted User]

Thanks Girls. Happy to go out anywhere dressed in my alter-ego, but was actually hoping to meet up sociallywith some local Tgirls; hence my question. Thought that might help my very limited Italian language skills (read, ‘zilch’ lol).

And Paula, please don’t get excited – Rome ain’t what it was just 10 years ago when I was last here. This is a city impoverished and in serious decay: the garbage is piled high and scattered in the streets, while popular morale appears quite low. The last leg of our 240 klms walking pilgrimage Assisi to Rome involved trudging 15 klms through the suburbs from Monte Sacro to Vatican City and St Peter’s Basilica. After the tranquility and grandeur of all our hill top towns and villages where we stayed overnights, and the startling variety of mountain and valley landscapes, the suburbs and city of Rome depressed both of us. We remembered our last time in Rome with so much love and joy, we found the decay of 10 short years very hard to take in.

As for St Peter’s and the Vatican? It all looked a lot more like Rome’s primary tourist cash cow than a welcoming reception for pilgrims. The official end point for the ‘Way of St Francis’ pilgrimage is the Basilica itself where (except between 1300 and 1600) the sacristy is open to offer the last stamp needed on the pilgrim’s ‘redenziale del Pellegrino’ (credential) and to receive the much coveted ‘Testimonium…’. (The pilgrim is expected to go straight to the basilica before going anywhere else in Rome.) Instead we were turned away from the basilica at the security point because of our back packs which of course contained all that we had travelled with (including walking poles, nail scissors, a multipurpose tool etc.) and sent off to the official Roman Office for Pilgrims to get our credential stamped and testimonium. When we arrived there, and after a 20 minute queue, we we told brusquely that staff were too busy selling tickets to the Sistine chapel and Vatican museum and that we’d have to come back another time! Seems that the Pilgrim Office has been taken over by the company that markets and tickets the tourist attractions drrrr?. Looks like the Catholic Church has lost its way, not only around the world, but right here in the Vatican itself.

BTW, only saw one very sexy bottom pinched: that was rewarded instantly by a firmly slapped face lol.

Cheers
Fran