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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.
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.
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.
