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When Georgia Maloney was first running for office, she leads the brothers of Italy party,

she campaigned as fascist always do against gays and lesbians. Maloney staged huge Trump-style rallies in Rome during

her successful campaign in 2022, and those Trump rallies are modeled on rallies held by

Hitler and Mussolini in the 30s so Maloney kind of closed that loop.

At Maloney's rallies, she described herself as a simple Christian mom who believed children should only be raised by married heterosexual parents.

After taking power in October of 2022, the Maloney government forced Italian cities to rescind

birth certificates that had already been issued to same-sex couples

that listed both parents, creating, as the BBC described them, orphans by decree.

And Maloney's party is now moving to make surrogacy abroad a crime in Italy

that can be punished retroactively with fines and jail terms.

Since mostly gay male couples have sought surrogacy abroad, gay couples with kids face the prospect

of being jailed and having their kids taken from them.

One gay couple, Claudio and Devide profiled in the BBC, is now preparing to flee Italy.

I'm afraid that our child won't have parents because we will be in jail, Claudio said.

It's grim. be in jail, Claudio said.

It's grim.

I'm old enough to remember when social conservatives

and other fascists used to attack gays and lesbians

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