Thousands Rally in Italy for Gay Rights

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of cities across Italy on Saturday to call for legal recognition for gay couples and their children. From Milan in the north to Palermo in the south, supporters of civil unions carried rainbow-colored flags, balloons and signs asking Italy to "wake up" to the need for a law on civil unions. Italy is the only major Western European country not to have enacted civil union legislation allowing same-sex couples to have their...

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