Ivan Scalfarotto, wants support for the legislation currently blocked in the Senate by thousands of amendments proposed by opponents to the billA junior minister in the Italian government has gone on hunger strike in a protest aimed at speeding up moves to introduce civil unions for gay couples.Ivan Scalfarotto, 49, said in his blog he was aiming to force discussion of the issue into the mainstream and rally the support of “all those people of good faith who have been thinking up until now that it was enough just to wait”.

Topics:  senate   italian   ivan scalfarotto   minister   support   gay   hunger strike   civil unions   

 

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