Italy leav gay upl wag at the altar | Rters

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• GAY ROME
• ITALY LEAV GAY UPL WAG AT THE ALTAR
• GAY DICTNARY ITALIAN

GAY ROME

In recent weeks thori ma harr for same-sex upl to be legal parents and lawmakers proposed an anti-surrogacy law wily seen as targetg gay upl. The matter me to light when the centre-left mayor of Milan publicised last measure means that most s only the blogil parent of children raised by gay or lbian upl n have parentg rights, leavg the other partner wh no legal March, the lg aln prented a law parliament to extend a natnal ban on surrogacy to upl who go abroad for the practice, wh jail terms of up to two years and f of 600, 000-1 ln ros ($1. Crics warn of the potential for a "poverty bias" agast women who bee surrogate mothers due to fancial abroad to have a baby is "an emotnal rolleraster and you also have to face the hostily of your own untry" when you e back, said Cristiano Giraldi, one of the tws' fathers along wh his partner Grg RIGHTSIn Catholic Italy, gay marriage is illegal and same-sex upl already have fewer rights than most of wtern Europe.

Rabow Fai Print Alsia Croci said 90% of Italians who choose surrogacy are heterosexual upl, but they mostly do so secret, meang the new ban would facto affect only gay upl who nnot hi January ernment orr stops mayors om acceptg birth certifit of foreign-born surrogate children wh two fathers. 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.

ITALY LEAV GAY UPL WAG AT THE ALTAR

“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. "A person n be heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual: love is ee, betiful and sacred for all, " he BAZZI/EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockBssels nnot impose the ncept of fay on : a child needs a mother and a father. “We’re livg fear, ” Mar said, cg the example of a gay iend who was almost killed by his antagonist followg repeated harassment.

GAY DICTNARY ITALIAN

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.

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. For visors lookg for an LGBTQ+ scene, the relatively small but spired gay nightlife is only steps away om the Colism.

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. 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.

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.