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A gay island community created by Italy's Fascists

Seventy-five years ago in Fascist Italy, a group of gay men were labelled "degenerate", expelled from their homes and interned on an island.

They were held under a prison regime - but some found life in the country's first openly gay community a liberating experience.

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