The first anthology ever to gather writing by Italian and Sicilian descended lesbians and gay men in North America.
Publisher: Three Guineas Press
Available in: Paperback and e-book
ISBN: 9780967558608 ISBN-10: 0967558603
Published: December 1, 1999
*Hey Paesan! went out of print some years ago. Used copies turn up regularly on Amazon, and the book is held by libraries across North America.
An anthology of writing by Italian and Sicilian descended lesbians and gay men in North America, Hey Paesan! is the first ever look at the homophobia, silence, and invisibility faced by members of an ethnic group that has long been stereotyped as mafiosi and femme fatales.
It is a long overdue contribution to the growing awareness of multiculturalism in the Americas. It is also queer pride, Italian style.
"As a lesbian Italian American I yearn to find myself in today’s whitebread Anglo-centric culture. Hey Paesan! is an anthology of essays from L/G Italian Americans that serves as that reflecting pool. By deconstructing identities through poems and memoirs, the authors describe what it’s like being a queer paesan! Molto bene!”
--Stephanie Bonvissuto
"... speaks in many voices to what it means to be marginalized and stereotyped by a straight WASP culture... "
--Bay Area Reporter
"Eciture has long been a rallying cry in France among those who speak from points of resistance...
--IAWA newsletter
Giovanna Capone is a poet, fiction writer, and playwright. She was raised in an Italian American neighborhood in New York. Her work has appeared in Curaggia: Writing by Women of Italian Descent, Bless Me Father: Stories of Catholic Childhood, Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, and many more. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she works as a public librarian.
Denise Nico Leto is a San Francisco Bay Area poet, writer, and editor. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Curaggia: Writing By Women of Italian Descent, My Lover is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems, and the Chiron Literary Review.
Tommi Avicolli Mecca is a writer, editor, and longtime political activist. He spent ten years at the Philadelphia Gay News, rising from reporter to managing editor, and later wrote for the SF Bay Times. He is the author of Between Little Rock and a Hard Place and the editor of Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation.
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