Salvatore Monaco is Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology at the Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen - Bolzano (Italy), where he teaches 'Gender, Identities and Spaces'. He obtained his PhD degree in Social Sciences and Statistics from the Department of Social Sciences, University of Naples Federico II (Italy). He is researcher at Osservatorio LGBT and OUT (Osservatorio Universitario sul Turismo), University of Naples Federico II. His research interests concern social exclusion, tourism, urban contexts, technologies and new media, with particular attention to issues related to identities, genders, sexual orientations and generations.