Giovanni Dall'Orto

Giovanni Dall'Orto (21 July 1958) is an italian historian, journalist and pro-gay activist.
According to William A. Percy, he is, by common consent, the leading scholar of the history of homosexuality in Italy.
Biography.
Born in Milan, Dall'Orto became a gay activist in 1976, committing himself increasingly also to history and scholarship. In 1981 he wrote the first book about AIDS published in Italy.
From 1985 to 1998 he published extensively in the monthly "Babilonia": he was general editor of this newspaper from 1997 to 1998. From 1999 onwards he has worked with the monthly "Pride", of which he serves as general editor. He has had great success in enriching the gay aspects of the Italian edition of Wikipedia. 
He has also collaborated in the realization of two LGBT encyclopedias: "Encyclopaedia of Homosexuality" (1990) and "Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II" (2000). In 2012 he founded Wikipink, a gay encyclopedia that is part of the "Wiki" project.
After a long study and research work, in May 2015 he published "Tutta un'altra Storia": a book about the history of homosexuality from antiquity to the second post-war period in which, for the first time in the history of Italy, topics relating to the daily life of gay life over the centuries are fathomed.
His H-Index is 10.