LGBT rights in Italy

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) persons in Italy face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity has been legal since 1887, when a new Penal Code ("Codice Zanardelli") was promulgated. While a civil unions law passed in May 2016 provides same-sex couples with many of the rights of marriage, same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to opposite-sex couples: a provision in the legislation that would have granted non biological parents in same sex civil unions some parental rights- known as the stepchild adoption- was struck from the legislation and the requirement for faithfulness in the same sex civil unions was also struck from the bill. The same

LGBT rights in Italy

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) persons in Italy face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity has been legal since 1887, when a new Penal Code ("Codice Zanardelli") was promulgated. While a civil unions law passed in May 2016 provides same-sex couples with many of the rights of marriage, same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to opposite-sex couples: a provision in the legislation that would have granted non biological parents in same sex civil unions some parental rights- known as the stepchild adoption- was struck from the legislation and the requirement for faithfulness in the same sex civil unions was also struck from the bill. The same