Interview with Pieke Biermann
Nikos: What are your more important moments in your participation in Hydra and the sex workers’ rights movement, please? Pieke: We will need an hour to discuss all these moments! In the beginning, when Hydra was…
Nikos: What are your more important moments in your participation in Hydra and the sex workers’ rights movement, please? Pieke: We will need an hour to discuss all these moments! In the beginning, when Hydra was…
Rosaria Iardino has been HIV-positive and involved in HIV/AIDS and healthcare activism since the mid-1980s. She founded the activist group “Coordinamento Lesbiche/AIDS,” has previously served as president of the…
Corinna Rinaldi, who is also an activist in militant feminist movements, is president of the Iniziativa Donne AIDS in Bologna, which she co-founded in 1989.
NP: Please allow me to begin with some more general questions. Please provide some information about yourself, including where you were born, where you grew up, your education, and your occupation. When exactly were…
Ada Moznich is an activist with Network Persone Sieropositive (NPS) and Ragazzi della Panchina, a group dedicated to harm reduction and advocacy for drug users and HIV-positive people.
Franco Grillini was born in Pianoro near Bologna in 1955. He was an activist in the group “Circolo 28 giugno,” co-founder and later president of Arcigay, and co-founder of Lega Italiana per la Lotta contro l’AIDS…
Pia Covre was born in Milan in 1947. She is a co-founder of the Comitato per i diritti civili delle prostitute (CDCP), an early participant in LILA and TAMPEP...
Enzo Cucco, born in 1960, has been an activist with the queer liberation group FUORI! since 1976 as well as the Partito Radicale, for which he served as a regional councilor from 1990 to 1995.
Marinella Zetti, who had previously been active in the feminist and LGBTQ+ movements, began volunteering with ASA in 1990.
Massimo Cernuschi, a doctor and infectious disease specialist, began volunteering with ASA in Milan in 1985.