Tag Archives: Italy

Beginning next year the Catholic Church will be forced to pay property taxes in Italy.  The new law came about due to pressure from the EU. The move could net Italy revenues of 500 million to 2 billion euros annually across the country, municipal government associations said. The extra income from previously exempt properties in Rome alone – including hotels, …

Gay Star News reports that Ill Papa recently blessed two gay porn actors who appeared at the Vatican in priest drag. The Pope has been tricked into blessing two porn actors and a video of the moment is set to be included in a new Bel Ami gay movie. That’s according to famous gay porn producer and Bel Ami founder …

Italy’s far right Forza Nuova movement has launched an anti-gay media campaign with the slogan, “Italy needs sons and daughters not homosexuals.” Gay Star News reports: Forza Nuova launched its campaign last week, in Ortona, a coastal city on the Adriatic Sea in the Abruzzo region, not far from Rome. Italy’s leading LGBT association Arcigay was in the city with …

This weekend our own Father Tony married Italian visitors Salvatore Stolfi and Massimo Porcelli in Jefferson Market Garden in Greenwich Village. The grooms requested that the ceremony open with the below statement written by Tony and translated for the mostly-Italian wedding party. Welcome to the marriage of Salvatore and Massimo! We have come together today to celebrate their life together. …

Italian soccer star Antonio Cassano has been fined €15,000 after telling the press that he hoped that there were no gay players on his championship team. Cassano is known for stripping to his underwear after a win. Pink News reports: UEFA said today: “Following the opening of disciplinary proceedings against Italy’s Antonio Cassano for a discriminatory press statement (Art. 11bis …

The event ends today, but I thought this was cute.

The Italian Supreme Court today issued a ruling that gay activists say may help clear the road for same-sex marriage. In its first case regarding a gay couple who wed abroad, the Supreme Court rejected their appeal to be recognized legally in Italy yet said the two men still had the “right to a family life”. “Today’s Supreme Court judgement …

Chicane-esque, yes?(Via Allure Of Sound)

And more are still missing including two Americans. Today the local port authority released a transcript in which they accuse the captain of abandoning the ship during rescue operations. Another report claims that ship ran aground after the captain veered off course in order to sound the vessel’s horn at a friend on the shore. He is presently in jail …

Three dead, thousands rescued. Three people are confirmed dead after a cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground off Italy. There were scenes of panic as the Costa Concordia hit a sandbar on Friday evening near the island of Giglio and listed about 20 degrees. People reached land by lifeboats but some swam ashore. Rescue teams have been …

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has promised to resign in the wake of his nation’s growing financial crisis. We last heard from Berlusconi here on JMG when he dismissed his patronage of an underage prostitute by saying, “At least I’m not a homo.” Berlusconi said today that he favored early elections and that Angelino Alfano, head of his People of Liberty …

The lower chamber of Italy’s parliament yesterday voted against a bill that would have extended discrimination protections to LGBT people. The Chamber of Deputies voted yesterday 293 votes to 250 not to approve the legislation. Gay rights campaigners have called on the European Union to step in. Italy already bans discrimination on the grounds of race, religion, ethnicity and nationality …

Some Italians Catholics are incensed over the below 10-second cell phone ad in which a man resembling Jesus asks “Dad” for help in escaping a dominatrix. “It’s a sordid concept and incredibly insulting to those who believe in Jesus Christ,” said an editorial in Avvenire, a daily newspaper owned by the Catholic Bishops Conference. The newspaper’s editor, Marco Tarquinio, said …

JMG reader Davide writes to note that Italian activists don’t care for this strange new ad from Mercedes-Benz in which a woman chances upon a some rough-looking gay characters in a roadside diner.

According to the U.S. Census, the number of Italian-born residents of Manhattan’s Little Italy is now zero. A census survey released in December determined that the proportion of Italian-Americans among the 8,600 residents in the same two-dozen-square-block area of Lower Manhattan had shrunk to about 5 percent. And, incredibly, the census could not find a single resident who had been …

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been indicted on accusations that he hired an underage prostitute and then later intervened in her arrest on theft charges. Granting a request by Milan magistrates, Judge Cristina Di Censo said the first hearing would take place on April 6, in a move that brings a long-running probe into the premier’s private life to …

As anti-gay Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces a confidence vote due, in part, to his infamous dalliances with numerous prostitutes, his possible replacement appears to be Nichi Vendola, the openly gay governor of the southern Italian state of Apulia. Via Washington Post: The governor of Apulia, a region in the heel of the Italian boot, wore a gray checked …

Garbage hasn’t been collected for weeks in Naples and blame is being directed towards Italy’s prime minister. The rotting garbage piled up on the streets of Naples has become an enduring symbol to Italians of the many problems facing Silvio Berlusconi’s crumbling conservative government. The prime minister came to power as a “Mr. Fix It” less than three years ago …

Fending off charges of an improper relationship with a 17 year-old girl, 74 year-old Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is defending his “appreciation” for young girls by saying “at least it’s better than being gay.” “As always, I work without interruption and if occasionally I happen to look a beautiful girl in the face, it’s better to like beautiful girls …