Rome's Pride Parade Defies Government Crackdown.
Rome held its annual LGBTQ+ Pride parade with about three dozen floats, including one celebrating same-sex couples with children, amid the Italian government's crackdown on surrogate pregnancies and same-sex parents. The government recently approved a bill that would make it a crime for any Italian to use surrogacy, even abroad, to have a child. Italy allows same-sex civil unions but not marriage and doesn't allow its citizens who are single to adopt children. The courts have ordered municipal officials to register both members of a sex-same couple as the legal parents of a child born abroad, and urged lawmakers to update legislation to reflect changing social norms.
