For years at the forefront of LGBTQ struggles, she has always fought for respect for the struggle for civil rights and important issues such as social inclusion, blocking homophobia and sexual freedom, Vladimir Luxuria has always felt he can share how example and for this it has earned the esteem of many.
Vladimir Luxuria, born Wladimiro Guadagno (Foggia, June 24, 1965), is an activist, writer, television personality, columnist, artistic director, actress, singer, playwright and former Italian politician.
She was a member of the XV Legislature, during the Prodi II government, becoming the first transgender person to be elected to the parliament of a European state.
A transgender activist, former parliamentarian, has never hidden even the darkest corners of his life, as he recalls in an interview with Libero, summing up the period that he later defined as the worst of his life:
The youth Vladimir, as she herself has repeatedly told, was very difficult.
When she still called herself Wladimiro one day, at the age of 20, she was attacked on the subway by a group of boys. Also in that period he declared that he had used drugs (including cocaine) as he declared during the program It is not the D’Urso in 2019. “In my life I have been using drugs for a short time. I tried cocaine too, sure.
I don’t remember the effect anymore, just an unpleasant sensation. I also worked as a prostitute, and it is something I regret, something contrary to the sense of dignity of my body and of my person. I did it for a few months. In that very bad period of my life I thought about suicide, I didn’t see a future, they got me back by the hair “. He also spoke about his past during the radio program La Zanzara. “I had just graduated in Foreign Languages and Literature in Rome. After graduation I had to leave the student residence, where we ate and slept for free. So I rented a studio flat in Pigneto. Do you know how much I was paying? Half a million lire. The more the bills, the more the problem is not about lunch, but at least about dinner. It happened one evening. I was on my way home and a boy, a handsome boy, rolled down the window and asked me in one breath: “How much do you get?”. I replied instinctively, almost without thinking about it. I said: “Fifty thousand”. Then I got in the car… “.
“I would not prostitute myself again. I cannot say that I regretted it, it was a period of my life. I spent it with long sessions with the analyst; I had gone through so many disappointments with men that, out of spite, in my head , I decided: don’t you give me anything and are you ashamed of me? At least give me the money “
Luxuria has undergone several surgeries and hormonal cycles, but has never fully completed her transition process. Reason? “Anesthesia scares me”he explains, adding, “Even if it’s true: I redid the nose, mouth and breasts in one go. And frankly, I got men’s attention more like trans “
Now she feels in perfect balance: “The transition requires various phases: having full ownership of the body you can stop at any moment. But also go ahead; it is not said that she does not change sex completely. Eva Robin’s thought so too” explains rightly Vlady.
Converted to Catholicism after years of total detachment, Vladimir Luxuria made contact with the Church thanks to. “to some priest friends and to Pope Francis’ new approach. It has improved my life”. Finally, when it comes to faith and homosexuality, she is confident: “After all, sexual inclusion in religious faith is the next goal: in this the Waldensians, Anglicans and Buddhists are ahead of Catholics who are better than Muslims and Orthodox ” he has declared.
