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Added on: 11/02/2021

‘I’m tired of feeling invisible’: Italian bill’s rejection leaves LGBT+ community in anger

11/01/2021

For many in Italy’s LGBT+ community, the rejection of a bill meant to ban discrimination has been viewed as a step backwards on the already-fraught road to…

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Added on: 10/28/2021

‘Disgraceful’: Italy’s senate votes down anti-homophobic violence bill

10/27/2021

Italy’s senate has killed off a bill that would have made violence against LGBT people and disabled people, as well as misogyny, a hate crime. The 315-member…

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Added on: 07/11/2021

Raffaella Carrà, Italian cultural institution and LGBT icon, laid to rest in Rome

7/9/21

In Italy’s week of mourning for Raffaella Carrà, one image summed up her universal appeal: a rainbow flag – the symbol of the LGBT movement – next…

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Added on: 06/22/2021

Vatican condemned for ‘unprecedented interference’ in Italian bid to outlaw anti-LGBT+ hate

06/22/2021

The Vatican has stated its opposition to an Italian bill that would help protect LGBT+ people from discrimination in an “unprecedented” move. Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s…

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Added on: 05/20/2021

‘Political backlash’ blamed for halting LGBT+ rights gains in Europe

05/17/2021

Progress on laws to boost LGBT+ rights has come to a virtual standstill in Europe amid a rise in homophobic and anti-transgender rhetoric by politicians in countries…

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Added on: 05/19/2021

LGBT activists urge Italian government to approve anti-homophobia law

05/18/2021

Unlike many of its EU partners, Italy still does not have laws to punish homophobic hate crimes. But now a law proposed by Alessandro Zan, an MP…

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Added on: 05/06/2021

Roma and Gadji: The Love Story of Two Women United in Matrimony

05/04/2021

Sveta is 29 years old and lives in Chieri, Italy. Occasionally, she works as an online Russian teacher, volunteers at some Roma camps in Turin, and has…

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Added on: 04/05/2021

Far right puts brakes on a new law that aims to stamp out homophobia in Italy

04/04/2021

Daniela Lourdes Falanga has had her fair share of battles. The first was to survive a brutal upbringing as the firstborn son of a mafia boss in…

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Added on: 03/22/2021

Attack on kissing men fuels push for Italy hate crime law

03/21/2021

A recent attack in a Rome train station on two men who were kissing fueled calls by Italian political leaders Sunday for quick passage of a hate…

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Added on: 03/10/2021

Italy court urges more rights for children of gay couples

03/09/2021

Italy’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday said the country urgently needs a law on the rights of children of same-sex couples, in a step campaigners said did not…

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Added on: 03/07/2021

Italian politicians targeting LGBTQ people to divert attention away from the COVID economy, experts say

3/7/21

Two years ago, Francesco, then 18, became homeless overnight. His mother, an evangelical Christian, called the police to evict him from the family’s home in the southern…

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Added on: 03/05/2021

Europe’s nurses need more training to ‘reduce biases’ around LGBT+ issues

03/03/2021

Calls have been made to ensure nurses across Europe are trained to be “compassionate and culturally aware” towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people, after new…

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Added on: 02/17/2021

More European politicians found using homophobic hate speech

02/16/2021

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Homophobic language and hate speech against transgender people are on the increase among European politicians, an advocacy group said on Tuesday as…

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Added on: 02/16/2021

More European politicians found using homophobic hate speech

02/15/2021

Homophobic language and hate speech against transgender people are on the increase among European politicians, an advocacy group said on Tuesday as it sounded the alarm about…

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Added on: 01/05/2021

Italy’s coronavirus vaccine rollout will forcibly out transgender and non-binary people

01/04/2021

Italy’s segregated rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine by gender will forcibly out transgender people, campaigners have warned. As part of the EU’s mass vaccination programme, which will…

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Added on: 12/29/2020

Ancient Roman ‘homophobic graffiti’ found in unearthed Pompeii snack bar: ‘Nicia cinaede cacator’

12/28/2020

Archaeologists who have been excavating an Ancient Roman snack bar in Pompeii, Italy, have discovered “homophobic” graffiti scrawled on the walls. According to a press release from…

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Added on: 12/27/2020

Pompeii archaeologists uncover ancient homophobic insult to tavern owner

12/26/2020

Archaeologists excavating a snack bar in the ruins of Italy’s Pompeii have uncovered “exceptional” frescoes, and obscene graffiti likely directed at the establishment’s seventh century owner. The…

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Added on: 11/07/2020

Italy lower house approves bill protecting LGBTQ+ community, women and disabled people from violence

11/6/2020

Italy’s lower house of parliament passed a bill Wednesday that extends anti-discrimination protection to women, disabled people and members of the LGBTQ+ community, making violence against these…

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Added on: 11/05/2020

Activists hail bill to make violence against LGBT people a hate crime in Italy

11/04/2020

Activists in Italy have hailed a vote in the lower house of parliament to pass a bill that would make violence against LGBT people and disabled people,…

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Added on: 10/20/2020

LGBT Italians Protest in 63 Cities to DemandProtection from Violence

10/19/2020

Protestors in 63 Italian cities have come together with 24 organizations to demand LGBT+ people receive protection from violence. Meanwhile 69,000 people from Italy and all over…

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Added on: 10/17/2020

Demos planned as Italy mulls LGBT+ hate crime law for the sixth time

10/16/2020

When Marlon Landolfo kissed his date on a night out, onlookers started heckling, a fight broke out and his friend ended up in hospital – the latest…

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Added on: 10/16/2020

Demos planned as Italy mulls LGBT+ hate crime law for the sixth time

10/15/2020

When Marlon Landolfo kissed his date on a night out, onlookers started heckling, a fight broke out and his friend ended up in hospital – the latest…

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Added on: 10/03/2020

When politicians use hate speech, political violence increases

10/02/2020

Politicians deepen existing divides when they use inflammatory language, such as hate speech, and this makes their societies more likely to experience political violence and terrorism. That’s…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Wish It Was a Coming Out: older gay people in Italy – in pictures

08/24/2020

Photographer Melissa Ianniello’s long-term project investigates the double taboos of homosexuality and old age in Italy. The subjects of her intimate portraits are a group of gay…

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Added on: 08/02/2020

Italy is one step closer to protecting LGBT+ people with a new bill, if the far-right doesn’t tear it down first

08/01/2020

Although Italy approved same-sex civil unions in 2016, the country still lags behind other European countries in enacting measures against homotransphobia. In fact, 24 years after then-MP…

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Added on: 07/28/2020

Italy opens historic debate on long-awaited bill to outlaw LGBT+ hate crime

07/27/2020

Italy has been divided by debate over the country’s first law that would punish discrimination and hate crimes against LGBT+ people. The proposed legislation would bring Italy…

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Added on: 07/26/2020

‘We’re living in fear’: LGBT people in Italy pin hopes on new law

07/25/2020

For 15 years, Marco and his boyfriend had lived together fairly peacefully in a town outside Rome. Then, in early June, a neighbour started harassing them. “It…

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Added on: 07/17/2020

Fight over equal rights for LGBT people divides Italy

07/16/2020

Three weeks on from the brutal attack in the Italian city of Pescara that left a young gay man needing reconstructive facial surgery, Lorenzo has joined a…

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Added on: 05/02/2020

Pope Francis just threw his support behind a small community of Italian transgender sex workers

05/01/2020

Sex workers, particularly those who are undocumented, have been badly hit by the pandemic as many are unable to work or claim benefits. This was the case…

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Added on: 09/14/2019

Surge in chemsex parties arranged on ‘hook-up’ apps is fuelling fresh HIV epidemic in European cities, doctors warn

09/13/2019

A surge in “chemsex” parties, where some people spend days getting high on drugs and having sex with scores of partners, is refuelling epidemics of HIV among…