The COVID-19 panmic has left supports for LGBTQ youth Italy and elsewhere Europe thly stretched – puttg thoands of young gay and transgenr people at even greater risk.
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Holdg a rabow flag, Mar Marras walked on stage at the start of a rally beg held by Grgia Meloni Sardia durg her electn mpaign to nont her about gay rights. ”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. She practilly rpond: ‘Be happy wh what you have’ – they thk I should live a lser life bee I’m gay.
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. Surrogacy, meanwhile, is prohibed outright, and Meloni has proposed extendg a ban to crimalise gay upl who seek surrogate mothers abroad.
”Some ci and towns Italy have embraced gay parentg, for example by allowg children of same-sex upl to be legally registered wh the surnam of both parents.