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Péter Magyar says his government will change the rules that keep same-sex couples from adopting. A day after HRW's assessment of the repeal bill, the shape of the unfinished work is clear: one surviving clause in the Family Protection Act, the constitution, and the law used to ban Pride.
A law that took effect in August bars single LGB people from adopting and lets parents lose custody for supporting a transgender child's gender identity, human rights groups say.
The Bari Court of Appeal, in a ruling now final, has given a four-year-old boy three legal parents — two fathers and a co-mother. It is the first time an Italian court has done this, and it lands in the middle of Giorgia Meloni's war on rainbow families.
Montenegro became the first Western Balkans country to recognize same-sex unions when its Life Partnership Law took effect in July 2021. As the five-year mark approaches, the law has held — but adoption rights are still locked out, and the political winds aren't getting easier.
Croatia is now the most legally protective country in the Western Balkans for LGBTQ+ people — but the road from constitutional ban to court-ordered adoption rights ran through 25 years of Pride marches, not parliamentary good will.
The Czech Republic's enhanced same-sex partnership law took effect on January 1, 2025 — granting registered partners almost every right of marriage except joint adoption. More than a year in, here's what's working, what isn't, and why couples are still fighting for full equality.
