Gay driver wins lawsuit over 'disabled' licence

The Italian government was ordered to pay nearly €100,000 to a gay man who received a driver’s licence for the disabled after he volunteered information on his sexual orientation to military authorities, the man and a gay-rights group said today.

Danilo Giuffrida, 27, said he told officials about his homosexuality when he took a physical after being called up in 2000 for Italy’s mandatory year of military service, which has since been abolished.