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This week on Outstanding Docs: Love in Rimini

Film explores relationships between straight men and transsexuals in Italy

By OUTtv • November 26, 2008 7:00 pm EDT

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Love in Rimini

Love in Rimini explores the relationships between straight men and transsexuals who live in the Italian resort of Rimini. How do men justify their attraction to a transsexual and how does this fit into straight sexual identity? How does the strong Italian macho tradition deal with this phenomenon? In this cultural context, could these relationships be an outlet or cover for gay desire and sexual contact?

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