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LGBTQ+ Italians on alert over Meloni as right triumphs in election

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The triumph of a right-wing alliance in Italy’s election has raised concern among LGBTQ+ campaigners, who fear nationalist leader Giorgia Meloni could adopt anti-gay policies as prime minister and set back their efforts to boost equality.

Meloni, who is set to become Italy’s first woman premier at the head of its most right-wing government since World War Two, fiercely denounced what she calls “gender ideology” and “the LGBT lobby” just months before Sunday’s vote.

But she has also played down her party’s post-fascist roots and portrays it as a mainstream group like Britain’s Conservatives.

So what would her leadership of Italy’s new government mean for the LGBTQ+ community? Meloni, a Christian, has sprinkled speeches with anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and conservative statements on family-related issues. “Yes to natural families, no to the LGBT lobby, yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology, yes to the culture of life, no to the abyss of death,” she said as she addressed supporters of Spain’s rightist Vox party in the southern Spanish city of Marbella in June.

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