Italy’s prime minister says surrogacy ‘inhuman’ as party backs steeper penalties
The move to criminalize surrogacy is largely seen as a move against the LGBTQ+ community.
April 14, 2024
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Donatella Versace Blasts the Italian Government’s Wave of Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies
In an impassioned speech at an award ceremony last Sunday, the designer denounced Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led coalition for ongoing measures to restrict LGBTQ+ rights.
October 1, 2023
Italian Senate Kills LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes Legislation
The Senate voted to block debate on the bill, essentially ending its chance of passing during the current legislative session.
October 27, 2021
Italian Homophobes Highjack Pro-Gay Adoption Image on Twitter
Photographer Oliviero Toscani was appalled when a conservative, homophobic political party in Italy tweeted an image he shot in support of diverse families for a very different campaign.
September 5, 2014
The Anti-LGBTQ+ Views of Italy's Likely New Leader, Giorgia Meloni
Meloni denies she'll roll back LGBTQ+ rights, but she's spoken out against "the LGBT lobby" and "gender ideology."
September 29, 2022
Lesbian Mothers Targeted by Prosecutor Going After Children's Birth Certificates
The parents are fighting back, however.
June 22, 2023
New Book Details a First Lady's Longtime Lesbian Relationship
It's not Eleanor Roosevelt but Rose Cleveland, who served as first lady for her brother, President Grover Cleveland.
June 21, 2019
Aussie bum
The 27-year-old Queensland "jackeroo" (Aussie for "cowboy") and former model made it to the final four on Australian Big Brother this summer, just months after surviving a vicious gay bashing.
September 11, 2006
What Ever Happened to 'Who Am I to Judge?'
Pope Francis's latest comments indicate he may be gearing up to blame LGBTQ people for the Catholic Church's child sex scandals.
December 5, 2018
LGBTQ-Friendly Cleric Named Cardinal; Far-Right Catholics Appalled
Archbishop Matteo Zuppi has endorsed moderate, gradual moves toward LGBTQ acceptance in the church, but right-wingers say he's gone too far.
September 6, 2019
GQ: 'Kind, Humane' Pope Francis Is Holy Man of the Year
GQ's Jim Nelson says one of the reasons the pope merits praise is that he doesn't think gays and lesbians are evil.
November 25, 2014
Say Cheese
Two New York City women make culinary waves with their artisanal ricotta.
October 22, 2008
Outing Gives New Meaning to Passages About Harry Potter Wizard Dumbledore
With author J.K. Rowling's revelation that master wizard Albus Dumbledore is gay, some passages about the Hogwarts headmaster and rival wizard Gellert Grindelwald have taken on a new and clearer meaning. The British author stunned her fans at Carnegie Hall on Friday night when she answered one young reader's question about Dumbledore by saying that he was gay and had been in love with Grindelwald, whom he had defeated years ago in a bitter fight. ''You cannot imagine how his ideas caught me, Harry, inflamed me,'' Dumbledore says in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in Rowling's record-breaking fantasy series.
October 23, 2007
The sins of the fathers
Cardinal Ouellet doesn't believe in punishing children for their parents' sins--that is, unless their parents' sin is homosexuality
July 27, 2005
Majority of Americans Support LGBTQ+ Youth, GLAAD's First Spirit Day Index Finds
GLAAD commissioned the poll for this year's observance of Spirit Day.
October 19, 2023
15 Snarkiest Replies to ISIS Threat of Roman Invasion
Twitter users from all over the world joined the people of Rome this week standing up with humor against an antigay invasion threat, allegedly from ISIS.
February 26, 2015