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Gay Padua

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🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Legal Status in Italy

Based on national laws as of 2025

66/100
Partial Rights
✓ Same-sex relations legal
✓ Equal age of consent
✓ Partnership / union
✗ Same-sex marriage
✗ Adoption rights
✓ Anti-discrimination law
✓ Legal gender change

Homosexuality decriminalised in 1890 (Zanardelli Code) — one of the earliest in Europe. Same-sex civil unions ("unioni civili") legal since 5 June 2016 (Cirinnà Law / Law 76/2016), granting near-parity with marriage in most civil matters: inheritance, hospital visitation, next-of-kin, pension survivor rights, residency for foreign partners. Same-sex marriage not legal. Joint adoption not permitted. Step-child adoption historically allowed case-by-case by courts, but actively restricted by the Me

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Padua is one of Italy's great university cities (founded 1222, one of Europe's oldest), home to Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel and a student population that produces a lively and tolerant social environment. The gay scene is small but active. Padua Pride is a spring event.

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