Constantinople Florence Konstantina Delight, named after Constantinople, the old name of Istanbul before Islam and secular Turkey. Old Istanbul lives in Florence and he also lives there today. A city which the government is politicizing islam in an alarming rate. “Even breathing is a form of activism in this society and sometimes it’s even difficult to breathe.” In Turkey, a heteronormative society with assigned gender identities and where hate propaganda towards the LGBTQ+ community increases everyday, Florence manages to be a part of all gender identities without defining himself with a specific one. Florence resists this society in a powerful way by embodying a drag queen.