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• VATIN EXPRS DEEP RERVATNS OVER GAY RIGHTS BILL ITALY
• EUROPE’S EPENG DIVI ON GAY RIGHTS

VATIN EXPRS DEEP RERVATNS OVER GAY RIGHTS BILL ITALY

NOI (ora) Notizie Omossuali Italiane, diretta da Fran Grilli, ereda la ttata di “CON/TATTO” registrata al Tribunale di Bologna f dal 1989 e “ano” ll’ARCIGAY, che ce n 14 numeri prima di cere il passo alla nuova impra telemati. Italy’s senate has killed off a bill that would have ma vlence agast LGBT people and disabled people, as well as misogyny, a hate 315-member senate voted by 154 to 131 on Wednday to block the bate on the law, named after the gay centre-left Democratic party (PD) legislator Alsandro Zan and prevly approved by the lower hoe of parliament the face of months of protts om far-right and Catholic Picierno, a PD member of the European parliament, lled the vote “one of the worst pag the history of the Italian republic”.

Acrdg to the far-right parti that voted agast the bill the upper hoe, the law would have supprsed eedom of exprsn and promoted “homosexual propaganda” June, the Vatin ma an unprecented terventn urgg the Italian ernment to change the law over ncerns would ge upon the Catholic church’s “eedom of thought” over the approval of the bill, which would lead to people nvicted of such crim beg jailed for up to four years and perm an crease fundg for groups that work to fight agast discrimatn and assist people who are the victims of , me after a seri of high-profile attacks agast gay and transgenr groups receive hundreds of hate crime reports each year but many go unpunished.

”The foreign mister and ex-M5S lear Luigi Di Ma said the bill had been “swept away a disgraceful secret vote” while the Gay Roma group said was a “slap the face for the majory of the populatn” M5S lear and former prime mister Gieppe Conte said: “Those who are rejoicg at this sabotage should expla to the untry”. SummaryItaly's LGBT muny ncerned by electn rultFears ernment will only promote 'tradnal' valuRight promis not to roll back rightsROME, Sept 27 (Rters) - The LGBT muny has "very real fears" after a nservative bloc domated by the far-right won Italy's general electn, a leadg gay rights mpaigner told natnalist Brothers of Italy group, led by Grgia Meloni, emerged as the largt party the ballot and will lead the most right-wg ernment Rome sce World War Two.

EUROPE’S EPENG DIVI ON GAY RIGHTS

"Unfortunately there are very real fears" about an erosn of civil rights unr the new admistratn, Fabriz Marrazzo of the Gay Party is allied wh the League, another far-right force led by Matteo Salvi, and the mastream nservative Forza Italia of former premier Silv Berlni.

Explag her opposn to gay parentg rights, she has said that "unlucky children" who are up for adoptn "serve the bt" - meang a father and a has nied suggtns that her socially nservative outlook would stretch to unrmg or abolishg existg Italian legislatn on abortn rights or same-sex partnerships.

REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane'GENDER AND LGBT COLONISATION'Marrazzo, a former lear of the Arcigay LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) associatn who unsuccsfully stood the Sept. 25 electn, said he was most ncerned about the cultural signals g om the said might bee harr to n anti-LGBT discrimatn programm schools and said there had been an crease the past homophobic attacks Italian ci and regns wh right-wg Va & Famiglia, a nservative Catholic lobby that is highly spic of sex tn schools, has lled on the new ernment to pick an tn mister opposed to "any genr and LGBT iologil lonisatn schools" is not expected to take office before late October, so is too early to say whether she will heed the advice. He also said his party supports same-sex partnerships - spe havg voted agast their troductn 2016 - and "is agast all discrimatn"'s ai also stood by a ll to censor an episo of the popular children's rtoon "Peppa Pig" which featured a polar bear wh two mothers, sayg gay parents nnot be prented to mors "as an absolutely natural fact" surveys suggt most Italians are more June, an Ipsos poll showed that 63% of Italians backed marriage rights for gay people, up 15 pots om 2013, and 59% were favour of gay adoptns, an crease of 17 pots om ne years ago.

The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. “There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent. ”If gay people Italy, a untry that regularly ranks reports as beg among the worst wtern Europe for LGBTQ+ rights, had already unrstood that privileg so far gaed were threadbare, Meloni ma explicly clear they would not get any better unr her ernment.

The first formal step towards s formatn rulted the electn of two ntroversial figur: Ignaz La Rsa, a Brothers of Italy polician who llects fascist memorabilia, and Lorenzo Fontana, a League member wh anti-abortn and anti-gay views, as speakers of the upper and lower hoe of parliament enacted a civil unns law 2016 when the untry was erned by a aln led by the centre-left Democratic party, but the bill stopped short of legalisg gay marriage, while a clse that would have allowed a person to adopt the child of their same-sex partner was scrapped after prsure om rightwg parti and the Catholic church. A mon feature of the rabble-rog speech given by Meloni, a self-scribed “Christian mother” who says she fends tradnal fay valu, is the reeratn of her view that a child should only be raised by heterosexual for homosexual upl is banned Italy, forcg people to travel abroad to bee parents.

“This ernment shouldn’t only make the mory groups aaid, but everyone, ” said ’s new prime mister has repeatedly said she is not homophobic and will not try to repeal the civil unns law. The law that would have crimalised homophobia, drafted by Alsandro Zan, a gay polician wh the Democratic party, was shelved last year after beg boytted by the rightwg groups.

”Marras, who was h wh a barrage of onle sults over his nontatn wh Meloni, worri that her ernment will attempt to jtify homophobia, and may try to tamper wh the civil unns law. For many Italy’s LGBT+ muny, the rejectn of a bill meant to ban homophobia has been viewed as a step backwards on the already-ght road to week, Italy's senate rejected legislatn that -- among other thgs -- would have outlawed discrimatn on the grounds of sexual Perna, a 33-year-old gay man livg Rimi, said he was left feelg eply distrsed by the rejectn of the legislatn, lled the "Zan bill", on Wednday. "I am gay and disabled which for my untry means I don’t exist #ZanBill_Law_Straightaway, " he told Euronews that he se as important that his msage be dissemated as wily as possible, wh social media reprentg one of the key platforms to obtag this goal.

The “Zan bill” had been troduced by s namake, Italian MP Alsandro Zan om the centre-left Democratic Party the lower hoe of parliament May 2018, as a reactn to a growg wave of homophobic and transphobic attacks the prent, the sectn of Italy’s penal that specifilly outlaws hate crim and discrimatn – the "Manco law", datg back to 1993 – only explicly mentns “racial, ethnic, natnal or relig” the Zan bill’s many proposals, would have amend Italy’s penal to ban discrimatn on the grounds of sex, sexual orientatn, genr, genr inty, and of discrimatn on such grounds uld have land offenrs an 18-month prison sentence or a €6, 000 fe.

Emanuele, a 32-year-old jurist and gay man polilly affiliated wh the right, was opposed to the bill and breathed a sigh of relief upon s rejectn the senate. MILAN (AP) — Gay rights activists on Tuday nounced as homophobic mov by Italian Premier Grgia Meloni’s far-right-led ernment to lim regnn of parental rights to the blogil parent only the se of same-sex parents. Sala’s admistratn not only transcribed documents om other untri regnizg the rights of gay and lbian parents, but also nferred the same regnn on same-sex parents of children born Italy.

Other ci like Rome, Tur and Napl had also nferred siar regnn briefly for a perd after Italy’s high urt ma easier for gays to adop t a partner’s blogil child.

Italy’s Gay Party, formed 2020 to give polil heft to the fight agast anti-gay discrimatn, timat that some 150, 000 children are impacted by Italy’s failure to regnize the rights of both parents same-sex marriag. Leonardo Da Vci’s legacy Milan is well known and many historians agree that he was a gay artist leavg his mark many masterpiec of the cy, cludg The Last Supper, hoed by the refectory of the nvent of Santa Maria lle Grazie.

There are also many wonrful lser-known plac where an tert LGBTQ+ history uld lead you, such as Florence's Bargello Mm, which ntas an earlier Renaissance statue of David by the artist Donatello—the first ee-standg male nu sce Classil Antiquy, and a super-sexy homoerotic nu at that.

"The bill is ad, " PD senator Dar Parri told advocy groups say homophobia is a ser problem Italy and have long plaed that homophobic and transphobic attacks are tried on lser charg than racist 's largt LGBT+ rights group, Arcigay, rerds more than 100 hate crime and discrimatn s each year, but numero attempts over the last 25 years to create a law to punish acts of homophobia and transphobia have Italy, where same-sex unns were passed 2016, the approval of civil rights laws has often been marked by strong opposn om Catholic and nservative groups.

Supporters of the bill, named after the gay PD lawmaker and promoter Alsandro Zan, have repeatedly nied that would impge on ee speech, sayg would only punish hate Vatin feared that the law uld lead to the crimalisatn of the Church Italy for refg to nduct gay marriag, for opposg adoptn by homosexual upl, or refg to teach genr theory Catholic schools. Fabriz Marrazzo, a spokperson for Gay Centre, a Rome-based associatn, said received about 20, 000 reports of discrimatn agast LGBT people a year, of which about 9% are severe. Alsandro Zan, a gay polician wh the Democratic party, part of the lg aln, and archect of the draft legislatn, was threatened wh ath by an onle opponent unls he whdrew the bill.