Torre del Lago: The Gay Beach Town Hiding Inside Viareggio
A day trip from Florence turned into one of our favorite stretches of the Tuscan coast — Torre del Lago has been a queer gathering spot since the 1970s, and it still shows.
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LGBTQ+ Digital Nomad Guide to Florence, Italy
We spent time working out of Florence during our European rotation. Here's what it's actually like to live and work there as a queer couple — the good, the slow, and the quietly conservative.
Rome Pride Fills the Streets Under a Pointed Slogan: 'The Republic Belongs to Those Who Live in It'
More than 300,000 people marched past the Colosseum on June 20, turning the Italian Republic's 80th anniversary into a constitutional argument aimed squarely at the Meloni government.
Milano Pride Turns 25: Italy's Biggest Rainbow March Returns June 27
A quarter-century after the first rainbow flags poured out of the metro at Porta Venezia, Milano Pride expects 350,000 people for its 2026 parade — a defiant celebration under Giorgia Meloni's government.
The Classroom Front: How Italy, France and Germany Are Rolling Back Inclusive Education in 2026
Across Western Europe, the fight over LGBTQ+ rights has moved into schools. From cancelled diversity programmes in Italy to challenged equality curricula in France and Germany, a once-stable region is quietly importing an American culture-war playbook.
Italy's Constitutional Court Just Extended Widow Pensions to Same-Sex Couples Married Abroad Before 2016
The court struck down part of a 1939 fascist-era pension law, ruling that INPS cannot refuse a widow's pension to the surviving spouse of a same-sex couple married in another country before Italy's 2016 civil unions law took effect.
Rome Pride Tells Keshet Italia: Condemn 'Genocide' or Stay Off the Float
Italy's largest Pride parade has barred two Jewish LGBTQ+ groups from marching with a float unless they meet a political litmus test on Gaza. The move has fractured the Italian queer community a month before June 20.
Italy's Pride Season Opens in a Country That Still Has No Marriage Equality
Roma Pride on June 20 and Milano Pride on June 27 lead a long Italian summer of marches. They will run in the only Western European country still without same-sex marriage, two years into a government that has spent both of them rolling rights backwards.
An Italian Court Just Recognized Three Legal Parents for One Child. Under Meloni. Read That Again.
The Bari Court of Appeal, in a ruling now final, has given a four-year-old boy three legal parents — two fathers and a co-mother. It is the first time an Italian court has done this, and it lands in the middle of Giorgia Meloni's war on rainbow families.
Italy's Courts Keep Expanding Same-Sex Parental Rights — Even as Meloni's Government Tries to Roll Them Back
A series of Constitutional Court and Supreme Court rulings have steadily widened legal protections for LGBTQ+ families in Italy, putting the judiciary on a collision course with the Meloni government's anti-surrogacy and 'traditional family' agenda.