"L'Eurocamera dà il via libera alla direttiva che rafforza le tutele per le vittime di reato, con protezioni specifiche per violenze sessuali e crimini d'odio legati a orientamento sessuale, identità di genere o disabilità. Il testo riprende i principi del ddl affossato nel 2021 e dovrà ora essere recepito dagli Stati membri entro due anni"

And you know who opposed it (aside from the right wing)? TERFs.

Because they didn't want to band together with trans people.

And the right wingers brought them up as a "gotcha!" to the other evil queers, and then tried to get trans people removed from the legislation, so we wouldn't be protected.

To my knowledge, the group said no.

In the end, the law wasn't passed anyways.

Out of pure hatred for trans people, TERFs (so-called feminists) went against a law that would have protected cishet women as well.

There was a "law" that was being discussed to become an actual law, it was about gay, trans and disabled people rights. Guess what? It didn't pass, we still don't have a law that can protect us from queerphobes! And what did some Italians do? FUCKING CELEBRATED LIKE THEY WON A FOOTBALL MATCH

Italy, sucks right now. The law (Ddlzan) has been refused after MONTHS on wait, it's been months since this law was first mentioned!!!

And the funny thing is that this law adds aggravating factors to hate crimes based on sexual orientation, gender identity or any disability. Straight people complained about how this law was "heterophobic" and "made no sense" because it didn't cover straight and cisgender people anyway, instead, if the sexually oriented hate crime was aimed at a straight person the aggravating circumstances would enter in action (not that it's ever going to happen lol), the DDLZAN hits straight people too. I don't really understand what their problem was.

I'm really angry right now honestly.

Queer Italians and real allies won't stop fighting for the Ddlzan to be approved, we NEED this law!

From 2012 to 5 October 2020, 876 episodes were recorded by us in Italy, for a total of 1,166 victims, but we do not claim to have compiled an exhaustive list. There are still all the episodes in which the victims or their families, perhaps for reasons that cannot be shared but to be respected, did not have the courage to expose themselves in the absence in Italy of a specific law that protects them.

This is for my Italians fellas or people who knows italians

I'm so sorry those are in Italian!!!

Each bar represents a month and is divided into segments of different colors. Each segment indicates the number of victims affected by acts belonging to the same type: single assaults (red), multiple assaults (i.e. to several people together)(blue), murders(black), suicides(yellow), suicide attempts (i.e. suicides saved in extremis)(pink), non-physical acts (such as removal from home or from school or from work or from a public place, defamation etc.) (Green) and lastly other (grey)

(there wasn't the black, yellow and grey options :( sorry)

I think this speak by itself.

there is a very notable peak in July 2018, coinciding with the rise of the League to the government and an identical precipice in September 2019, coinciding with the fall of the same government.

(I would just say that there surely are some victims of queerphobes that didn't report what happened so aren't included in the graphic or analysis)

Found something in English for y'all.

This explains everything better then i do and they're probably better informed than I am.

Some articles about some homophobic attacks in Italy, there isn't everything of course but i think you understand how much we

NEED

The Zan law.

I don't even know what *I* could do to help. I'm just 16! I don't know how I can help you rise my rights as a queer person...

If you have any idea please share! I wanna do something to help more concretely.

Please, don't ignore this.

I feel really bad to say that I don't feel safe in a country where the violation of human rights gets cheered as if it was a football match. Today those people that feel entitled to attack you because of your sexuality, your disability or your gender won, and all I have to say is that this country is a fucking joke and I really fucking hope that they're happy to have just created a safe space for shitty people to feel even more entitled to discriminate against someone.

Welcome to 2021 I guess🎪

So, after having given the time to completely forget about it, the famous DDL Zan went to the House of Representatives to be approved and, long story short, it didn’t get the required number of votes it was supposed to so that Italy could FUCKING FINALLY have a law anti homo-transphobia.

This is bad enough as it is, but what is even worse is that all the people who were strongly against the approbation of this law started to scream and celebrate INSIDE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES! Our politics is a freaking joke, we all know that, but those votes - obtained to be taken anonymously - aren’t only from the “usual” parties (Lega, Fratelli D’Italia, etc.) but even politicians from the most liberal parties used the shield of anonymity to vote against something which was aimed to protect people.