Tag: Italy

'My dad loves my husband Jacob as if he was his own son' The gay son of the bouncer accused of discriminating against a gay couple last weekend in Italy has spoken up to defend his father to Gay Star News. Giuseppe Pitirollo and Daniele Bausilio said they couldn’t enter a beach party in Bacoli, 15km west of Naples. The couple also claimed the bouncer told them a traditional couple ‘is only made of a woman and a man’. The venue Lido...

The 20-year-old victim was shocked no passersby came to his aid despite appealing for help An English student was viciously beaten in Bologna, Italy, on Sunday evening. His assailants spat and shouted at him from a car, ‘Hey, are you a faggot?’, before jumping out and running after him. When they caught up with the 20-year-old, they subjected him to a vicious beating, according to Republica. The young man suffered a broken nose and head injury. The attack happened in the historic...

Italian gay couple found dead after carbon monoxide poisoning An Italian gay couple died after inhaling dangerous levels of carbon monoxide on Tuesday (2 January). Alex Ferrari and Luca Bortolaso, both 21, died after inhaling the fumes from a defective wood-burning brazier. The gay students were staying in a holiday home in Ca’ di Sotto, Verona with two female friends. Ferrari and Bortolaso were sleeping together in one room and their friends in another. But because their friends were using an electric fire, they...

A young gay couple say they were relaxing in the pool at a local beach resort when a staff member harassed them. The 17-year-old and 18-year-old say they were recently “intimidated” by a lifeguard at the Lido Arcobaleno beach resort in Caserta, in the Campania region of southwestern Italy, after sharing a brief hug in the water. “We were in the pool like everyone else,” one of the teens told Repubblica. “While we were in the water, like everyone else present,...

Confession: 'I loaded the dead body in the car and I threw it to sea' 35-year-old navy officer Ciro Guarente confessed to murdering 25-year-old gay activist Vincenzo Ruggiero today (29 July). Ruggiero went missing 7 July in the area of Giugliano in Italy, with friends and family desperate to find him. But shocking video footage showed Guarente moving Ruggiero’s body into the back of his car, so he had to confess. In his confession, Guarente said: ‘Yes, I killed Vincenzo because he had...

A landmark court ruling in Italy recognises a gay couple as the legal parents of their children born to a surrogate. The Court of Appeal in the city of Trento ruled that both men could be named as fathers to the children. The surrogate mother in Canada, nor the fathers of the child have been identified. The children were conceived by artificial insemination. According to the court judges, parental relationships are not solely defined by a biological link. “On the contrary, one must consider...

The businesses hosted orgies and "dark rooms" for clients to engage in sexual activity. Francesco Spano, Italy’s anti-discrimination chief, has resigned after reports that government funds were being used for gay clubs offering services from prostitutes. An Italian investigative television show Le Iene, or The Hyenas, reported that Spano’s department—the National Office against Racial Discrimination (UNAR)—had allocated “nearly €180,000 in taxpayer money to a variety of associations that run private gay social clubs and saunas across Rome,” reports The Daily Beast. A...

The Vatican quickly distanced themselves from the comments, saying they were Pagan and not Catholic. A Catholic friar has come under fire for comments about the fatal August earthquake in central Italy. Dominican friar Giovanni Cavalcoli, in an interview with fundamentalist Catholic radio show Radio Maria, said the earthquake, which killed almost 300 people, could be divine punishment for civil unions for gay men. ‘From a theological point of view, these disasters are the result of original sin,’ he said. ‘We are in...

Even if the Chirch stand against same-sex unions in Italy, last week Italian parliament passed same-sex unions bill. Reactions from the Church's representatives were negative. Catholic Archbishops don't want the law and a leader said it:  “There is a big slice of the country that this law does not want it. I believe this way of doing is creeping fascism.” Despite many negative reactions from the Church, Italy's President Sergio Mattarell signed the bill into law, so he made it clear...

To celebrate, Rome’s Trevi Fountain lights up rainbow Yesterday, Italy's Parliament has finally passed the bill that allows same-sex couples to legalize their union, with 369 votes vs 193. Despite the opposition of the Catholic Church, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has been a fierce supporter of the bill and helped it pass. Now, same-sex couples in Italy can legalize their partnerships, yet religious same-sex unions are still banned even for denominations who are supportive of the LGBT community. The law will allow...

This beautiful performance took place on Italia's Got Talent Show. A gay couple decided to show the whole public their incredibly intimate and special performance on the latest series of Italy’s Got Talent Show. The couple, who demonstrated perfect dance skills shocked four judges of the show - Claudio Bisio, Frank Matano, Luciana Littizzetto and Nina Zilli. They were moved by the performance of these cute guys - Umberto and Roberto. The couple admitted that they had already come out to their mothers, but...