
Thousands of people marched in Italian cities Saturday to demand legal recognition for gay couples and their children, days before lawmakers begin addressing the deeply divisive issue.
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Thousands march in Rome for gay rights
Italy is the only major Western European country not to have enacted civil union legislation allowing same-sex couples to have their relationships acknowledged and protected in law.
A bill, which the Senate will start examining on Thursday, is the first to get to parliament.
If approved, the draft legislation will enable same-sex couples to commit themselves to one another before a state official, to take each other’s names and, in certain circumstances, adopt each other’s children and inherit each other’s residual pension rights.
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