Fascists didn’t get permission because fascists don’t think gays deserve rights.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Italy’s far-right ruling party has been ordered to pay damages to a same-sex couple for using a photo of them with their newborn son without their consent in an anti-surrogacy campaign.

Brothers of Italy is a direct political descendant of the Italian Social Movement, which was formed by members of Mussolini’s Fascist Party after the war.

In March, it instructed Milan’s city council to stop registering the children of same-sex parents, leading to protests.

To us, our birth photo represents everything what we stand for; family, acceptance and unconditional love," the couple told the BBC.

“This victory against the Fratelli and the Prime Minister allows us to reclaim our photo, and show the world that family is about love.”

The photo, taken by Lindsay Foster, was also used without permission by independent Irish politician Mary Fitzgibbons in 2016 to push her platform against surrogacy for same-sex parents.

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Wow that’s about 7 years of battle. I am glad they got some compensation for that. Their case was taking on pro bono but I still think the compensation should be more considering how long this went on.