Three women march in Rome in support of Italy’s first hunger strike for gay marriage. (Fulvio Paolocci/GlobalPost)

Gay couple live streams hunger strike

Francesco Zanardi and Manuel Incorvaia are starving themselves in a demand for gay marriage.

By Angelica Marin — Special to GlobalPost
Published: January 23, 2010 09:10 ET

ROME, Italy — One night last September, Francesco Zanardi walked toward the back of a gay nightclub on the Greek island of Mykonos. Before he reached his moped, four men came from behind, pulled him to the ground and beat him unconscious.

The next day Zanardi awoke in the ER wing of a Mykonos clinic with severe internal bleeding and an unshakeable anxiety. Had he died, his...

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