So apparently in the 1960's, a decade where many countries first decriminalized homosexuality, attempts were made in italy to do the opposite, except that since the initial decriminalization of homosexuality in 1890, the governing class had matured a stance around the lines of "Whathever the fuck is going on with you guys is between yourselves, your conscience and the church if we want to leave it at that, we don't want to fucking talk about it, we don't want to project this topic amidst the populace" and they were so hellbent on it that the proposed laws never gained traction.
This did meant however that in imprisoning Aldo Braibanti in 1969 (It was unspokenly understood that the reason why he was deemed an "unsuitable element" was because of his sexuality), they had to do some legal someursalts and imprison him under charges of "Plagio", as we had no laws persecuting homosexuality since 1890.
For clarification, if you run plagio on a translation software, you'd get plagiarism, but this is plagio as in latin word plagium meaning subterfuge, the charge is defined as follows:
"Whoever subjects a person to his own power, in a way to reduce them under complete subjection is to be imprisoned for 5 to 15 years".
Braibanti ended up getting 9 years, which were appelead to 4, he then got freed after spending 2 of said 4 years in jail as they were "forgiven" of him as he had been a partisan during ww2.
There's actually even a movie about this, called il signore delle formiche, italians would be able to watch it on raiplay, but I have absolutely no idea where you lot anywhere else could find it
