Rome held its annual LGBTQ+ Pride parade, featuring around three dozen floats, including one celebrating same-sex couples with children, in contrast to the Italian government's crackdown on surrogate pregnancies and same-sex parents. Earlier this year, the far-right government told officials to register only the biological parent, and not the other parent in a same-sex couple, but Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri defied the order by transcribing birth certificates of children born abroad to same-sex couples. Italy allows same-sex civil unions but not marriage, and does not allow its citizens who are single to adopt children.

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