Explore our gay travel gui to Italy featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more!
Contents:
- A PERSONAL PARADOX: MY LIFE AS AN ITALIAN-AMERIN GAY MAN; OR, THE INTY CRIS OF ETHNIC QUEERS/QUEER ETHNICS
- OUR 7 FAVOURE PLAC TO EXPERIENCE GAY ITALY
A PERSONAL PARADOX: MY LIFE AS AN ITALIAN-AMERIN GAY MAN; OR, THE INTY CRIS OF ETHNIC QUEERS/QUEER ETHNICS
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“We’re livg fear, ” Mar said, cg the example of a gay iend who was almost killed by his antagonist followg repeated harassment.
“This guy me to simply bee he hat gays. This isn’t anythg new, happens to gay people all the time, but many do not report through fear. ”Although Italy approved same-sex civil unns 2016, the untry lags behd s EU partners creatg anti-homophobia measur.
OUR 7 FAVOURE PLAC TO EXPERIENCE GAY ITALY
Photograph: Ricrdo Antimiani/EPAAttempts by var ernments over the past three s to enshre gay rights law have eher been stifled or sabotaged. In addn, would crimalise a spate of recent attacks agast gay people, proponents argue that the legislatn is urgently need. Ls than two weeks later, a gay uple were asslted by a group of six after they kissed each other at a tra statn Cque Terre, Liguria.
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.
Another Sicily who opposed the law said durg a sermon: “If you exprs an opn agast homosexuals, or don’t agree wh two men adoptg a child, you uld end up jail. ”Zan said: “While is te that there is still strong homophobia, stemmg om a patriarchal culture, the untry has also ma progrs. The Vatin Mms even has a number of homoerotic piec of art and a vis to this magnificent llectn is certaly orr.