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| − | Biography:''' | + | Biography:''' '''Tommi Avicolli Mecca is a longtime southern Italian radical queer activist who helped organize the first gay pride march in Philadelphia in 1972.''' He is a poet,performer, activist and writer. As a journalist, he has contributed to [[http:''www.phillymag.com/|//Philadelphia Magazine//]], [[http://www.sfbg.com|//SF Bay Guardian//]], //Bay Times//, [[http://www.ebar.com/barlnews.htm|//BAR//]] and others. In 1978 he wrote and produced the first gay play presented in Philadelphia; in 1986 the libretto for the first dance/spoken word piece on AIDS. He has continued to fight the good fight since moving to the West Coast, where he is now a prominent housing and queer activist. Tommi's poetry has been published in a wide variety of journals including Northwest Magazine and the book, //Gay & Lesbian Poetry in Our Time//. He is author of //Between Little Rock and a Hard Place// and co-editor of //Hey Paesan!: Writing by Lesbians and Gay Men of Italian Descent''. His work draws strongly on his Mediterranean heritage involving bloodlines that stretch from Spain to North Africa. |
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Revision as of 07:30, 8 November 2007
NAME: Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Biography:' Tommi Avicolli Mecca is a longtime southern Italian radical queer activist who helped organize the first gay pride march in Philadelphia in 1972. He is a poet,performer, activist and writer. As a journalist, he has contributed to //Philadelphia Magazine//, [Bay Guardian//], //Bay Times//, [[1]] and others. In 1978 he wrote and produced the first gay play presented in Philadelphia; in 1986 the libretto for the first dance/spoken word piece on AIDS. He has continued to fight the good fight since moving to the West Coast, where he is now a prominent housing and queer activist. Tommi's poetry has been published in a wide variety of journals including Northwest Magazine and the book, //Gay & Lesbian Poetry in Our Time//. He is author of //Between Little Rock and a Hard Place// and co-editor of //Hey Paesan!: Writing by Lesbians and Gay Men of Italian Descent. His work draws strongly on his Mediterranean heritage involving bloodlines that stretch from Spain to North Africa.
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