“What I ask myself all the time is, ‘What is a man?’” says Edoardo Beniamin, a trans man training to join his father’s profession as a gondolier. By Guy Trebay Photographs by Clara Vannucci VENICE, ...

A gondolier who made headlines a decade ago for entering the male-dominated cadre of Venice’s canal rowers "while in the body of a woman," recently announced he is transgender. Alex Hai made the ...

I'm a gondola virgin, and this is just what I've come to Venice to find out. I was partly inspired by the story of Venice's first female gondolier, Alexander Hai, who - though she keeps flunking her ...

VENICE, Italy — Venice is on its way to having its first official female gondolier. City Hall said Friday that Giorgia Boscolo had passed the practical exam to become a gondolier. She is the first ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Alex Hai is the first female, and only private, gondolier in Venice. Dressed in the 18th-century, white-and-blue ...

Venice is on its way to having its first official female gondolier. City Hall said Friday that Giorgia Boscolo had passed the practical exam to become a gondolier. She is the first woman to pass this ...

ROME — The gondolier whose boat collided with a bigger one on Venice’s Grand Canal, killing a German tourist, has tested positive for cocaine and hashish consumption, police said Friday. Blood and ...

tFILE - In this Aug. 17, 2013 file photo, the gondola collided with a larger boat ferrying passengers lie in Italian Police headquarters in Venice, Italy, Saturday.Venice police say the gondolier ...

VENICE, ITALY — As a little girl in Venice, Giorgia Boscolo was forever bugging her father to let her ride with him in his gondola. While her three sisters played with their dolls, she would beg him ...

ROME - A gondolier involved in a crash on Venice's Grand Canal that left a German dead and his three-year-old daughter seriously injured has tested positive for drugs, police said on Friday. The man ...

VENICE (Reuters) - Nine centuries of male monopoly on the canals of Venice came to an end on Friday when the first woman passed the gruelling test to become a trainee gondolier. Giorgia Boscolo, the ...

VENICE (Reuters) - Nine centuries of male monopoly on the canals of Venice came to an end Friday when the first woman passed the grueling test to become a trainee gondolier. Giorgia Boscolo, the ...