- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Civil unions
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- 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.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Italy is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Italy is no protections.
Since Oct 28, 2021
LGBT employment discrimination in Italy is sexual orientation only.
Since Jul 9, 2003
LGBT housing discrimination in Italy is no protections.
Since Oct 28, 2021
Until 2004
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)