Gay MP appeals to EU for same-sex marriage recognition
PD member married partner in Germany last year
14 February, 15:18
(ANSA) - Rome, February 14 - Italy's first openly lesbian
MP, Paola Concia, said on Thursday that she will appeal to the
European Court of Human Rights after a Rome court rejected the
application to register her same-sex marriage contract.Concia, gay spokesperson for the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), exchanged vows with Ricarda Trautmann, a German criminologist, last August in Frankfurt.
The couple filed a request in Rome's civil court last October to ask for their same-sex marriage contract to be legally recognized.
Concia came out in 2002 after working for the PD for several years.
She became an MP in 2008 and has become a prominent activist for equal rights for gays and hate-crime laws against gay-bashing.
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