Crowds in Milan protest against curbs on rights of same-sex parents

Hundreds of radical took to the streets successful Milan successful protestation against moves by Italy’s caller right-wing authorities to restrict the rights of same-sex parents.

“You explicate to my lad that I’m not his mother,” work 1 motion held up amid a oversea of rainbow flags that filled 1 of the bluish city’s cardinal squares.

Italy legalised same-sex civilian unions successful 2016, but absorption from the Catholic religion meant it stopped abbreviated of granting cheery couples the close to adopt.

Decisions person alternatively been made connected a case-by-case ground by the courts, arsenic parents instrumentality ineligible action, though immoderate section authorities decided to enactment unilaterally.

Milan had been registering children of same-sex couples conceived overseas done surrogacy – which is amerciable successful Italy – oregon medically assisted reproduction, which is lone disposable for heterosexual couples.

But its centre-left mayor, Giuseppe Sala, revealed this week that this had stopped aft the interior ministry sent a missive insisting that the courts indispensable decide.

“It is an evident measurement backwards from a governmental and societal constituent of view, and I enactment myself successful the shoes of those parents who thought they could number connected this anticipation successful Milan,” helium said successful a podcast, vowing to combat the change.

Crowds waved rainbow flags and clasp banners successful Piazza della Scala, successful Milan, connected Saturday. Photograph: LaPresse/REX/Shutterstock

Fabrizio Marrazzo of the Gay enactment said astir 20 children were waiting to beryllium registered successful Milan, condemning the alteration arsenic “unjust and discriminatory”.

A parent oregon begetter who is not legally recognised arsenic their child’s genitor tin look immense bureaucratic problems, with the hazard of losing the kid if the registered genitor dies oregon the couple’s narration breaks down.

Elena Schlein, the recently elected person of the centre-left Democratic party, was among absorption politicians who attended the protestation Saturday, wherever galore campaigners rallied against the caller government.

The premier minister, Giorgia Meloni, whose far-right Brothers of Italy enactment came apical successful September elections, puts a beardown accent connected accepted household values.

“Yes to earthy families, nary to the LGBT lobby!” she said successful a code past twelvemonth earlier her predetermination astatine the caput of a right-wing conjugation that includes Matteo Salvini’s anti-immigration League.

Earlier this week, a Senate committee voted against an EU program to oblige subordinate states to recognise the rights of same-sex parents granted elsewhere successful the bloc.