https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Italy's top court on Tuesday upheld a ruling granting permission for a Roman woman to adopt her female partner's seven-year-old daughter. https://www.thelocal.it/20160622/italys-top-court-lets-gay-woman-adopt-partners-child Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:57:27 +0200 italys-top-court-lets-gay-woman-adopt-partners-child Pope Francis has sent his blessing to a lesbian author of children's books dealing with same-sex families, wishing her and her wife well in their work, it emerged on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150828/italian-lesbian-author-gets-papal-blessing Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:14:24 +0200 italian-lesbian-author-gets-papal-blessing The president of Italy's amateur football federation, Felice Belloli, was sacked from his post on Thursday following reports he made homophobic comments against women footballers, according to reports. https://www.thelocal.it/20150522/italian-football-chief-sacked-for-lesbian-comments Fri, 22 May 2015 09:50:43 +0200 italian-football-chief-sacked-for-lesbian-comments The Italian women’s football cup final has been scrapped after a football chief allegedly described women players as “lesbians”. https://www.thelocal.it/20150519/italian-womens-cup-final-scrapped-over-lesbian-slur Tue, 19 May 2015 16:46:39 +0200 italian-womens-cup-final-scrapped-over-lesbian-slur An Italian football chief has sparked furore after allegedly describing female footballers as “a handful of lesbians”. https://www.thelocal.it/20150515/italian-football-chief-sparks-furore-over-lesbian-slure Fri, 15 May 2015 14:06:55 +0200 italian-football-chief-sparks-furore-over-lesbian-slure Authorities in Turin have agreed to transcribe the birth certificate of a child born to a lesbian couple following an appeals court ruling, setting a precedent in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20150109/turin-will-transcribe-birth-certificate-of-gay-couples-son Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:34:00 +0100 turin-will-transcribe-birth-certificate-of-gay-couples-son Italy’s Ministry of Education has launched an investigation after a teacher at a Catholic school in Trento was allegedly sacked because of her sexuality. https://www.thelocal.it/20140721/lesbian-teacher-sacked-in-defence-of-catholic-morals Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:41:00 +0200 lesbian-teacher-sacked-in-defence-of-catholic-morals An Italian woman whose Facebook account was blocked after she posted a photo of two women kissing, in what the social network said “violated the community's standards on nudity and pornography”, told The Local she republished the photo in defence of her pursuit of gay rights. https://www.thelocal.it/20140519/facebook-scraps-italians-account-over-lesbian-kiss Mon, 19 May 2014 14:47:00 +0200 facebook-scraps-italians-account-over-lesbian-kiss A lesbian couple from Rome who allegedly kissed on a beach could end up in court over charges of “indecent exposure”, La Repubblica reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20140512/lesbians-face-trial-for-kissing-on-beach Mon, 12 May 2014 13:51:00 +0200 lesbians-face-trial-for-kissing-on-beach Francesca Pascale, the fiancée of Silvio Berlusconi, is suing a Bulgarian actress for €10m after she claimed in a TV interview that the pair had a lesbian love affair. https://www.thelocal.it/20131025/berlusconis-fiancee-sues-over-lesbian-claims Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:02:00 +0200 berlusconis-fiancee-sues-over-lesbian-claims Last Saturday, thousands of Italians marched for Gay Pride. Vincenzo Branà, President of the Bologna branch of the gay rights association Arcigay, was also there. He tells The Local what he thinks the future holds for gay rights in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20130621/gay-pride-is-also-an-event-for-families Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:36:00 +0200 gay-pride-is-also-an-event-for-families Josefa Idem, Italy’s minister of equal opportunities, has said she will attend Gay Pride in Palermo, Sicily, on June 14th, according to Italian press reports. https://www.thelocal.it/20130606/italian-minister-to-attend-gay-pride Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:58:00 +0200 italian-minister-to-attend-gay-pride