- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Civil unions (marriage rights)
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Adoption
- ✖ Step-child adoption only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Parental approval required
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Public opinion surveys in Italy have pointed to a varied attitude towards LGBTQ+ individuals.
History
Homosexual activity in Italy is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Italy is civil unions (marriage rights).
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Italy is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Italy is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Gender-Affirming Care in Italy is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Italy is not legally recognized.
However, a breaking decision on March 7, 2022, had the Italian court rule in favor of a non-binary person to have their gender recognized.
They are currently the only example of this recognition.
LGBT discrimination in Italy is varies by region.
LGBT employment discrimination in Italy is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Italy is varies by region.
Same-sex adoption in Italy is step-child adoption only.
Intersex infant surgery in Italy is parental approval required.
Serving openly in military in Italy is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Italy is legal.
Conversion therapy in Italy is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Italy is equal.
LGBT Rights by Province
View the LGBT laws in each individual province of Italy.
- Agrigento
- Alessandria
- Ancona
- Aosta
- Arezzo
- Ascoli Piceno
- Asti
- Avellino
- Bari
- Barletta-Andria-Trani
- Belluno
- Benevento
- Bergamo
- Biella
- Bologna
- Bolzano
- Brescia
- Brindisi
- Cagliari
- Caltanissetta
- Campobasso
- Carbonia-Iglesias
- Caserta
- Catania
- Catanzaro
- Chieti
- Como
- Cosenza
- Cremona
- Crotone
- Cuneo
- Enna
- Fermo
- Ferrara
- Firenze
- Foggia
- Forli-Cesena
- Frosinone
- Genova
- Gorizia
- Grosseto
- Imperia
- Isernia
- L'Aquila
- La Spezia
- Latina
- Lecce
- Lecco
- Livorno
- Lodi
- Lucca
- Macerata
- Mantova
- Massa-Carrara
- Matera
- Medio Campidano
- Messina
- Milano
- Modena
- Monza e Brianza
- Napoli
- Novara
- Nuoro
- Ogliastra
- Olbia-Tempio
- Oristano
- Padova
- Palermo
- Parma
- Pavia
- Perugia
- Pesaro e Urbino
- Pescara
- Piacenza
- Pisa
- Pistoia
- Pordenone
- Potenza
- Prato
- Ragusa
- Ravenna
- Reggio Calabria
- Reggio Emilia
- Rieti
- Rimini
- Roma
- Rovigo
- Salerno
- Sassari
- Savona
- Siena
- Siracusa
- Sondrio
- Taranto
- Teramo
- Terni
- Torino
- Trapani
- Trento
- Treviso
- Trieste
- Udine
- Varese
- Venezia
- Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
- Vercelli
- Verona
- Vibo Valentia
- Vicenza
- Viterbo
- Abruzzo (Region)
- Basilicata (Region)
- Calabria (Region)
- Campania (Region)
- Emilia-Romagna (Region)
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Region)
- Lazio (Region)
- Liguria (Region)
- Lombardia (Region)
- Marche (Region)
- Molise (Region)
- Piemonte (Region)
- Puglia (Region)
- Sardegna (Region)
- Sicilia (Region)
- Toscana (Region)
- Trentino-Alto Adige (Region)
- Umbria (Region)
- Valle d'Aosta (Region)
- Veneto (Region)