User:Contaldo80

Welcome to my Talk-page.So, you want to know who I am? I'm male in my early forties and live and work in Wellington, New Zealand, where I am a public servant. I'm particularly interested in helping support coverage of gay-related issues on wikipedia. I've been called a "one-issue editor". It's true that I feel passionate about improving knowledge on how gay (and bisexual) men and women have made a contribution to history - small or big, good or bad. The issue of homosexuality in particular has often been hidden in the past - a lack of understanding, fear of persecution, religious intolerance. But it is there if one looks hard enough for it.





Articles created
I am responsible for directly creating 23 new articles on wikipedia:

People Places Events Other
 * The Maltese politician, Herbert Ganado.
 * The Maltese lawyer, Joseph Flores.
 * The Italian cardinal, Fabrizio Spada.
 * The Italian cardinal, Fabrizio Paolucci.
 * The Italian Saint Trofimena.
 * The Italian castrato singer, Atto Melani.
 * The Maltese politician Guglielmo Rapinett.
 * The English noble-woman Mary Cromwell, Countess Fauconberg.
 * Jean, Bishop of Orleans in France.
 * The Memorial Hall, Manchester.
 * The gardens at Villa Rufolo, Ravello.
 * The district of Greengate, Salford.
 * The Villa Romana, Minori.
 * The Papal conclave, 1585.
 * The Papal conclave, September 1590.
 * The Papal conclave, 1676.
 * The Italian play, Filumena Marturano
 * The Trappist beer, Watou.
 * The UN declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity‎.
 * The situation around LGBT rights in the Commonwealth of Nations.
 * The BBC TV series Two Greedy Italians.
 * The sixteenth-century devotional work, the Beneficio di Cristo.
 * The church reform movement known as the Oratory of Divine Love.

Articles to which I have significantly contributed

 * Abd-ar-Rahman III
 * Aelred of Rievaulx
 * Agatha Barbara
 * Al-Amin
 * Al-Hakam II
 * Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad
 * Alcuin
 * Ambrose St. John
 * Anastasia the Patrician
 * Antonio Barberini
 * Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria
 * Atto Melani
 * Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 * Benvenuto Cellini
 * Bernardino of Siena
 * Brunetto Latini
 * Caravaggio
 * Carlo Carafa
 * Cecil Rhodes
 * Charles Fox Parham
 * Charles Hawtrey (actor born 1914)
 * Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat
 * Christina, Queen of Sweden
 * Cyrano de Bergerac
 * David and Jonathan
 * Desiderius Erasmus
 * Disciple whom Jesus loved
 * Donatello
 * Edward II of England
 * Edward Lear
 * Ellen Gates Starr
 * Elsa Maxwell
 * Eugenia of Rome
 * Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
 * Filippo Buonaccorsi
 * Francesco Algarotti
 * Francesco Maria del Monte
 * Francis, Duke of Cádiz
 * Francis Bacon
 * Francis Spellman
 * Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton
 * Frederick the Great
 * Galba
 * Gay bishops
 * George Preca
 * Guglielmo Rapinett
 * Henry Benedict Stuart
 * Henry Blake Fuller
 * Henry William Greville
 * Herbert Ganado
 * Hisham II
 * Horace Walpole
 * Il Sodoma
 * Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte
 * James Buchanan
 * James Kilfedder
 * Jane Addams
 * Jim Burgess (producer)
 * John Henry Newman
 * John II of France
 * Joseph Flores (Maltese politician)
 * Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana
 * Julius Pomponius Laetus
 * Keith O'Brien
 * LGBT history in Iraq
 * LGBT rights at the United Nations
 * Larry Grayson
 * List of sexually active popes
 * Louis XIII of France
 * Ludwig II of Bavaria
 * Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * Marbodius of Rennes
 * Marsilio Ficino
 * Mehmed the Conqueror
 * Mwanga II of Buganda
 * Nikolai Klyuev
 * Olha Kobylianska
 * Pepi II Neferkare
 * Peter de Rome
 * Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
 * Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma
 * Pietro Aretino
 * Poliziano
 * Pope Julius II
 * Pope Julius III
 * Pope Leo X
 * Pope Paul II
 * Pope Sixtus IV
 * Prince Aribert of Anhalt
 * Prince Eugene of Savoy
 * Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802)
 * Princess Isabella of Parma
 * Richard I of England
 * Robert Culliford
 * Sandro Botticelli
 * Scipione Borghese
 * Sergius and Bacchus
 * Stefano Pignatelli
 * Trajan
 * Umberto II of Italy
 * Vincenzo Bellini
 * William Dobell
 * William R. King
 * Witold Gombrowicz