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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. The law also recognizes same-sex couples as a family.
The case was referred to the Constitutional Court concerned at a possible conflict between the Italian Civil Code (which does not allow for same-sex marriage) and Articles 3 (which forbids any kind of discrimination) and 29 (which states an ambiguous gender-neutral definition of marriage) of the Italian Constitution. On 14 April 2010, the ...
Since 1890, the territory of what is now Vatican City has had no criminal laws against non-commercial, private, adult and consensual same-sex sexual activity. [3] The age of consent is currently set at 18 years for all persons, regardless of gender; in the case of sexual relations within marriage – only in the cases of marriages recognized as valid by the Catholic Church and by the laws of ...
An abrogative referendum on the divorce law was held in Italy on 12 May 1974. [1] Voters were asked whether they wanted to repeal a government law passed three years earlier allowing divorce for the first time in modern Italian history (Law of 1 December 1970, no. 898). Those voting "yes" wanted to outlaw divorce as had been the case before the ...
The same law repeals the prior rule prescribing automatic acquisition of Italian citizenship jure matrimonis by alien women who contracted marriage with an Italian citizen husband. Thus since the date of entry into force (27 April), the equality of foreign spouses before the Italian law was instituted, and the cardinal principle of acquisition ...
Under the Italian Social Republic of 1943–45, there was an attempt to criminalise homosexuality; however, the law was never implemented and the Rocco Code survived the Mussolini government. [ 43 ] 1968 – After a controversial trial, writer and artist Aldo Braibanti is sentenced to nine years in prison for brainwashing ( Italian : plagio ...
Greece had enacted a law in 2008 that established civil unions for opposite-sex couples only. A 2015 law extended partnership rights to same-sex couples. Oliari and Others v Italy (21 July 2015) [6] went further and established a positive obligation upon member states to provide legal recognition for same-sex couples. Italy thus breached the ...
In 2016, Italy passed a civil unions law to provide all of the rights of marriage to same-sex couples, except for joint adoption. [8] Some legal rights are also provided by the same law to same-sex and heterosexual couples that live in an unregistered cohabitation. Since 1982, Italy has allowed the people to legally change their gender.