Italy’s Pride calendar is heating up as we near International Pride Day, June 28th, with the largest Pride parade in the country happening this Saturday in Rome.
As Italy's government clamps down on the rights of same-sex parents and stops registering their children's births, one expectant couple says moving abroad is their best option.
Italian identity cards will no longer refer to children's parents as "mother" and "father" but use gender neutral terms for parents, the government announced in a move welcomed by civil rights campaigners on Friday.
Couples who seek surrogacy abroad won't be able to register themselves as co-parents to their children in Italy, the country's highest court has ruled.
Tens of thousands of people marched in the northern Italian city of Verona on Saturday to protest a meeting of the
anti-gay, anti-abortion US-based World Congress of Families.
The far-right League’s famously hardline conservative senator Simone Pillon was left outraged after a transgender actor and former politician spoke to schoolchildren about gender identity for a TV show.
Italy's Data Protection Authority has advised against a reform proposed by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini that would replace the word 'parents' with 'mother and father' on children's national ID cards.
Lorenzo Fontana, Italy's new Minister for Families and Disabilities who has made negative statements about gay families and reproductive rights, was targeted by hackers who inserted adverts for erectile dysfunction remedies into the search results for his website.
The centre-right Forza Italia party has called for restrictions on the colour schemes of grave sites in a northern Italian town in reaction to the brightly coloured grave of a gay rights activist.
Accusations of homophobia have surfaced in southern Italy after a teenage couple were reportedly told they could not hug in public at a beach resort in Caserta last Friday.
Italy reached a "historic milestone" in granting civil unions in 2016, but is a long way from being LGBT-friendly, a report published on Wednesday warned.
Valentina Sampaio, the first transgender model to make the cover of French "Vogue", will be flying the flag for the LGBT movement at Milan fashion week.
The head of Italy's anti-discrimination office has resigned after revelations that government money earmarked for combating sexual discrimination had been allocated to clubs offering gay prostitution services, in a scandal which created a media storm.
Same sex unions only became legal in Italy in 2016, and it is still impossible for couples of the same sex to officially marry. But in fact, same sex marriage has a long history in the country, professor Gary Ferguson explains.
Pope Francis turns 80 on Saturday with no sign of slowing down in his drive to reshape the Catholic church to reflect his own vision of compassion and humility.
