While same-sex civil unions have been legal in the country since 2016, same-sex couples do not have the right to adopt, thanks in part to opposition from the Catholic Church. Surrogacy remains illegal in Italy and there are restrictions that prevent the adoption of “stepchildren” by one parent. Medically assisted reproduction, like in vitro fertilization (IVF), is only available to heterosexual couples.
Neofascists will do neofascist things, who would have guessed
Putting aside the bitter feelings this makes me feel, this is horrible news. From my experience in my own country, voting as a minority & leftist person feels like fighting the waves these last years… I just keep thinking about when things will take a similar turn to Italy’s in other countries too, because it seems like only a matter of time.
I find it weird that being coastal and in the middle of progressive Europe, Italy is still conservative.
Southern Europe generally isn’t particularly progressive. A number of southern European countries are quite conservative in the sense of “things are slow to change”.
I kind of assumed, mistakenly, that other countries that aren’t the US were a bit more progressive than the US.
But it seems like the issues that we’re plagued by exist everywhere?
Fuck. We gotta fight.
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The US is actually pretty progressive on the LGBTQ front compared to the rest of the world outside of Northern Europe, I’d even go as far as to say the coastal states are some of the best places for LGBTQ folks in terms of culture in the world.
Woah that is news to me 😳! You have some sort of source for that so I can include it when I tell other people this?
Yeah sure,
Even from the entire country perspective.
Top 6: https://www.equaldex.com/equality-index
Top 25: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/global-acceptance-index-lgbt/
Conservatism is dying slowly, and instead of reconsidering their positions, right-wingers are doubling down and turning to fascism to keep their grip on power. We must stay vigilant and counter their bullshit and violence whenever possible. If we want a better world, we have to fight for it.
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the US is very progressive — what sucks is that it’s on a state-by-state basis so it’s at the same time very conservative lol
but places like the west coast and northeast are very forward. Philadelphia for example has a whole gayborhood filled with gay bars and the most obnoxious LGBT people you’ve ever met
The same people who’ve been complaining for four decades about things like erosion of due process and weak and unpredictable property rights go ahead and change birth certificates retroactively, creating chaos, confusion, and bureaucracy.
How these lunatics think they’re serving the interests and needs of the kids is beyond me. It’s so mean-spirited and eigenharming.
