Explore our gay travel gui to Italy featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more!
Contents:
- ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT
- WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
- ITALY ERAS NAM OF GAY MOTHERS OM THEIR CHILDREN'S BIRTH CERTIFIT CRACKDOWN
- FOR ITALY'S GAY RIGHTS ADVOT, IT'S 1 STEP FORWARD, 2 STEPS BACK
- AN AMBIGUO VICTORY FOR GAY RIGHTS EUROPE
ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT
Take an -pth look at Italy's LGBT+ rights, cludg rmatn on gay marriage, public rmatn, and forms of discrimatn. * italy gay rights *
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. Although Italy approved same-sex civil unns 2016, the untry has lagged behd s EU partners creatg anti-homophobia measur.
WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
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”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”. Take an -pth look at Italy’s LGBT+ rights, cludg rmatn on gay marriage, equaly laws, and forms of discrimatn.
Although homosexualy has been legal Italy sce 1890, long before many other untri allowed , s LGBT+ rankgs are fairly low.
Demonstratn favor of the Zan law, which aimed to offer more protectn agast discrimatn for gay, lbian, bisexual, and trans people. Acrdg to a 2019 survey by the Pew Rearch Center, 75% of Italians say homosexualy should be accepted by society. 63% of Italians support gay marriage, and a further 20% support civil partnerships, pared to global averag of 54% and 17%.
ITALY ERAS NAM OF GAY MOTHERS OM THEIR CHILDREN'S BIRTH CERTIFIT CRACKDOWN
LGBT Rights Italy: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * italy gay rights *
Many Italian ci are nsired gay-iendly, and Pri paras take place June and July multiple lotns.
FOR ITALY'S GAY RIGHTS ADVOT, IT'S 1 STEP FORWARD, 2 STEPS BACK
The LGBT muny has "very real fears" after a nservative bloc domated by the far-right won Italy's general , a leadg gay rights mpaigner told Rters. * italy gay rights *
Other big events the Italian LGBT+ lendar clu the Italy Gay Summer Party September and the Florence Queer Ftival October. Milan – nsired Italy’s LGBT+ pal, thanks to s many gay-iendly districts, bars, and events. Rome – the Italian pal has an annual outdoor event lled Gay Village nng om June to September.
The 2021 Pri Survey showed that 65% of Italians support more openly lbian, gay, and bisexual people sports, and 37% support more LGBT+ TV, films, and advertisg. The Vatin Mms even has a number of homoerotic piec of art and a vis to this magnificent llectn is certaly orr. For visors lookg for an LGBTQ+ scene, the relatively small but spired gay nightlife is only steps away om the Colism.
AN AMBIGUO VICTORY FOR GAY RIGHTS EUROPE
Italy lags behd other EU stat guaranteeg equal rights for homosexuals. Gay upl have no legal regnn or adoptn rights, and a bill that would make homophobia a crime has stalled. * italy gay rights *
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. Though smaller than Rome, Milan stands out wh Italy’s largt and most visible gay scene. 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 law, opposed by the Vatin, stops short of gay marriage but brgs Italy more le wh other Wtern European untri. * italy gay rights *
One of the most gay-iendly areas Southern Italy is Puglia, cludg the beachsi town of Gallipoli, which has recently bee a popular statn for LGBTQ+ lols. Serg Srdia is the -founr of Italy Gay Travels, a pany anizg LGBTQ+ group trips Italy. For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsItaly has begun removg the nam of gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit, as part of the right-wg ernment’s crackdown on same-sex move after populist prime mister Grgia Meloni’s aln announced March that state agenci should no longer register the children of same-sex upl, a move that sparked protts Milan.
Dpe Ms Meloni parg herself to Brish Conservativ and nyg she is homophobic, her party rose to power wh tough rhetoric agast same-sex parentg and support for tradnal fai and moral valu.
”Her aln partner, Matteo Salvi, of the far-right League party, had prevly lled gay parents “unnatural” while the ernment opposed a Bssels plan for a parenthood certifite that would be valid across the EU. Gay upl are forced to go abroad if they want children, as they are banned om accsg reproductive medil treatment such as IVF and surrogacy is also prohibed.