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.