LGBTQ+ Pride Parade in Rome Amid Surrogate Birth Crackdown
Rome's annual LGBTQ+ Pride parade took place 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 told municipal officials to register only the biological parent, and not the other parent in a same-sex couple. Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri defied the order and registered the birth certificates of children born abroad to same-sex couples. Italy allows same-sex civil unions but not marriage and doesn't allow its citizens who are single to adopt children.