The mayor of Bologna has paved the way for gay couples to have their foreign nuptials registered in the city, the latest step in a growing movement for same-sex marriage rights in Italy.
Angelino Alfano, Italy's interior minister and leader of the New Centre-Right (NCD) party, has said he is open to discussing making civil partnerships for gay couples legal in Italy.
The first gay marriage will be registered in Naples on Monday after the city’s mayor made it obligatory for his administration to record the marriages of same-sex couples who wed abroad.
The chief prosecutor of a Tuscan court has said he will challenge a decision to recognize a gay couple's marriage, hailed as historic by rights groups, arguing the ruling is illegal under Italian law.
An Italian court on Wednesday recognized a gay couple as married for the first time in Italy, which does not have any form of official acknowledgement of same-sex unions.
Italy's billionaire former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is officially divorced, paving the way for a possible future marriage with a woman almost 50 years his junior, the Italian media reported on Wednesday.
Thousands of engaged couples clutching heart balloons and holding "I Love You" banners crowded into St Peter's Square on Friday for a highly unusual Valentine's Day date - an audience with Pope Francis.
While known as the world’s great romancers, Italians remain divided on gay love. Their children however appear to have no such troubles, as a new video (see below) shows them coming out in support of love - no matter the gender.
British immigration officials admitted Friday that they mistakenly raided the wedding of an Italian man and his Chinese bride because they believed the marriage was a sham.
A woman who was born a man and her husband have written to an Italian cardinal to ask the Catholic Church to officially recognize their marriage, four years after they were controversially wedded in a church in Piagge in the central Marche region.
A number of marriages in Italy, where same-sex marriages are illegal, have been automatically scrapped from the registry after one of the spouses had a sex change.
A lawmaker from Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party said he was submitting a draft bill on Thursday to recognise same-sex unions, a day after France celebrated its first gay wedding.
