- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Civil unions
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- 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
- 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.
Since 1890
Same-sex marriage in Italy is civil unions.
Since May 11, 2016
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Italy is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Italy is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Since Jul 23, 2015
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.
Since Mar 1, 2004
Illegal
- Campania 2020
- Emilia-Romagna 2019
- Umbria 2019
- Piemonte 2016
- Sicilia 2015
- Marche 2010
- Liguria 2008
- Toscana 2004
Illegal in some contexts
No protections
LGBT employment discrimination in Italy is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Italy is step-child adoption only.
Since Jun 22, 2016
Serving openly in military in Italy is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Since Jan 1, 1986
Blood donations by MSMs in Italy is legal.
Since 2001
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)