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January 7, 2013
Berlusconi says he supports gay marriage, Italian LGBT groups are sceptical

The former prime minister says he's in favor of same-sex marriage and he will introduce it if he wins the next general election, but gay groups doubt his words will be followed by action

‘Action, not words’ demand Italian LGBT groups of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi after he promised same-sex marriage if he wins the country's next general election.

Last Monday Berlusconi said:

‘I’m in favor of granting legal status to couples who live together, including gays, if there is a majority that makes it possible to change the civil code’.

But Italy’s gay groups are expressing concern and ‘disillusion’.

January 1, 2013
Italy's Berlusconi makes anti-gay jibe during campaign

Italy's candidate for Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, makes an anti-gay jibe during his campaign -saying gays 'are funny'

Berlusconi, the 76 year-old tycoon and Italy's Prime Ministerial candidate, said during an interview on Radio Capital that ‘the left accuses me of everything except being gay and stealing money from Italians.

‘But I have a lot of gay friends. They're friendly and funny’,he said on 31 December, 2012 according to AFP.

June 6, 2012
Italian MP says a gay son would be 'worse than daughter marrying a Moroccan'

Italian MP Massimo Polledri, Lega Nord, says that 'homosexuals have to go to the psychologist to feel better'

‘A gay son? It would be worse than my daughter wanting to be a nun or to marry someone from Morocco.’

That's the comment from Italian MP Massimo Polledri, of Lega Nord Party, who also said that a gay son ‘would be the worst thing it could happen to me.’

Interviewed by the radio programme La Zanzara, on Radio 24 on Monday (4 June), the Italian politician, also a psychiatrist, added that ‘homosexuals are not happy. They go to psychologist and that’s the only way to feel better.’