r/TellMeAFact • u/GreenieSar • Jul 26 '23

TMAF about the history of same-sex marriage legalization in Italy

**Without this becoming a right-wing conservative cesspool of judgement and prejudice, please.

Bonus points if you are able to share information as a queer person in/from Italy.

This blows my mind that it hasn't been legalized. It also blows my mind that Padua is removing gay mom's from birth certificates to "protect the children". As someone from the States this sounds all too familiar.

Also.. per favore, share in English if possible. (If not possible I can translate the message online, but I want to have the most accurate translation and information possible).

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u/calamita_ Jul 27 '23

It's hard to tell one fact about something relatively complex, but in regards purely to history: the first law proposal to recognise same-sex unions of some kind was made in Italy in 1988, although discussions of similar laws had been brought up two years prior by some representatives of the Communist Party. A law recognising same sex unions finally passed almost 30 years later in 2016.

The 1988 law proposal was made by Agata Alma Cappiello (Socialist Party) and can be read here. It wasn't specifically for homosexual relationships, but it included them.

The law that was actually passed in 2016 can be read here. Sorry for the links being in Italian but I don't know of these being translated anywhere.