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The Gallant Adventure of a Provincial (1908) Luca Comerio

The Gallant Adventure of a Provincial (Italian title: Avventura galante di un provinciale) is a 1908 comedy film directed and produced by Luca Comerio and starring Luigi Maggi, Lydia De Roberti, Umberto Mozzato. It is most probably the first Italian film that we could define as GBLT-themed. The critics of the time were not at all enthusiastic about it. In an article in the Rivista Fono-Cinematografia of Naples it was defined as a 'film in bad taste and, technically speaking, not without flaws'.

Transvestism was never foreign to the theater and inevitably transmitted to the cinema...

In the scene in which the peeping tom spies a woman undressing only to discover that she is a man. Comerio may have been inspired by this film for his gallant adventure. The film was shot in Milan, although we do not know the exact locations.

Has your LGBTQA tumblr blog incorrectly been marked as “sensitive”? We would like to know!

My wife has been sharing LGBT news and life stories over at sallymolay.tumblr.com since the summer of 2014 She has some 2300 followers, who have been liking and sharing her content. The blog contains more than 1000 posts.

Early last year we discovered that Tumblr had marked the blog as “sensitive”. This meant that only members of tumblr could see the content. The public web site was no longer available for people without tumblr accounts. It could no longer be crawled by the search engines.

As most of you know, tumblr decided to ban porn in December. Now my wife’s blog is treated as an adult blog. Even registered “tumblerers” get the message “This Tumblr may contain sensitive media”.

It doesn’t. There is absolutely no explicit imagery on that blog and no “adult” content. Tumblr had flagged some images, none of which present nudity. These posts have later all been unflagged by tumblr. 

The blog is “clean”, but tumblr has not removed the content wall. They have, however, removed her avatar and the blog design. 

My wife has several times reported the issue to tumblr, using the online form set up for this purpose. This has had no effect.

We are preparing  a blog post and a magazine article on this issue and need more examples of tumblr unfairly labelling LGBTQA blogs as “sensitive”. 

We would also like to know if anyone has been able get in touch with tumblr officials regarding this matter or if anyone has gotten around similar walls. 

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YAY! I did a whole li’l scene! 

After an unsuccessful search for an app that’ll make things easy and not look like a program I downloaded from a geocities webring… guess it means I’m just making my own. Ah well. Works I guess… just means a bit more putzing. I’m a little happier with this look... though I notice some resolution loss here and there on certain layers... not sure what that’s about since they fairly large PNGs that I’m importing. Gonna have to play around with it more. Maybe I’ve gotta stick the layer first and THEN resize it, because after comparing this with the hot garbage panels I notice ones that lost resolution there did not lose resolution here... so... it’s possible to NOT look like hot garbage. I’m probably obsessing over nothing and it probably doesn’t look much different to some people but… *shrugs*