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Italy and Japan are the only G7 nations where same-sex marriages are not recognized. [9] In Italy both male and female same-sex sexual activity has been legal since 1890, when a new penal code was promulgated. A civil union law was passed in May 2016, providing same-sex couples with all of the rights of marriage except for joint adoption rights ...
It would take 10 more years before a party represented in Parliament made same-sex marriage part of their party policy goals. In May 2012, Antonio Di Pietro, political leader of the Italy of Values party, said, "Our party has been the first in Italy to follow US President Barack Obama. We invite other Italian parties to support gay marriage.
Laws that affect LGBT people include, but are not limited to, the following: laws concerning the recognition of same-sex relationships, including same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships; laws concerning same-sex parenting, including same-sex adoption; anti-discrimination laws in employment, housing, education, public ...
Same-sex marriage in Sweden has been legal since 1 May 2009, following the adoption of a new gender-neutral law on marriage by the Swedish Parliament on 1 April 2009, making Sweden the seventh country in the world to open marriage to same-sex couples nationwide. Marriage replaced Sweden's registered partnerships for same-sex couples.
In South America, same-sex marriages are recognized and performed without restrictions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Uruguay as well as the jurisdictions of French Guiana, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Free unions that are equivalent to marriage have begun to be recognized in Bolivia.
A new citizens' initiative was started on 29 March 2015 aiming to rescind the new marriage law. The new initiative collected almost 110,000 signatures by 29 September 2015 but it was rejected by the Legal Affairs Committee and later voted down by the full Parliament on 17 February 2017, by 120–48. The new marriage law took effect on 1 March 2017.
They bought an old house in a pretty Italian town to save their marriage. Now Christina and Pete Sobolev are working together to help revive dying Italian villages. They moved from the US to Italy ...
The application of marriage law equally to same-sex and opposite-sex couples has varied by jurisdiction, and has come about through legislative change to marriage law, court rulings based on constitutional guarantees of equality, recognition that marriage of same-sex couples is allowed by existing marriage law, and by direct popular vote, such ...