Massimo Prearo is currently Assistant Professor of Political science at the University of Verona, where he is studying the anti-gender movements and LGBTIQ+ politics. His last book is L’ipotesi neocattolica. Politologia dei movimenti anti-gender (Mimesis, 2020)

Recently with Sara Garbagnoli he co-authored La crociata anti-gender. Dal Vaticano alle manif pour tous (Kaplan, 2018). With Noemi Martorano he co-edited the book Migranti LGBT. Pratiche, politiche e contesti di accoglienza (Edizioni ETS, 2020).

As Marie Curie Fellow (2013-2015), he has studied the raise of the Italian LGBT activism in Italy. He has edited the book Politiche dell’orgoglio. Sessualità, soggettività e movimenti sociali (Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2015) and published the results of this research as a monography: La fabbrica dell’orgoglio. Una genealogia dei movimenti LGBT (Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2015).

He holds a PhD in Political Studies from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His dissertation examined the emergence of the LGBT movement in France and has been published as Le moment politique de l’homosexualité. Mouvements, identités et communautés en France, PUL, 2014.

He directed the academic electronic journal Genre, sexualité & société (2010-2018), he is co-director of the book series àltera / politiche e teorie della sessualità at Edizioni ETS and scientific coordinator of PoliTeSse.

Institutional webpage
https://www.dsu.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=20534&lang=it

Personal website
http://massimoprearo.com

Marie Curie Fellowship project website
http://lgbtactproject.eu