The proposed new law will retain the age of consent for sex at 18 years.
The age of consent in Italy is 16, but people under 18 are considered minors.
Parliament will be given an opportunity to vote on the age of consent.
He urged the House of Lords not to vote against reducing the gay age of consent from 18 to 16.
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Many believe that raising the age of consent is fraught with risks.
He points to his own record of voting to reduce the age of consent for homosexuals to the same as for heterosexuals.
His bill would "solely and simply" amend the Sexual Offences Act 2003 to raise the threshold from the current age of consent of 16.
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The bill, due to be debated in the House of Commons on Monday, is largely concerned with the equalisation of the age of consent.
Guernsey altered its laws regarding same-sex relationships in 2010, when the homosexual age of consent was lowered to 16 to match the heterosexual age.
Raising the age of consent can have other unfortunate consequences.
MSPs unanimously approved the first stage of the sexual offences bill which reforms the law of rape and equalises the age of consent at 16, for boys and girls.
Raising the age of consent to 18 has placed India among the more orthodox countries in a world where the norm and the global average is around 16 years.
Over a century the age of consent in India has been raised from 10 to 18 reacting mainly to concerns over child marriage, and much later over rape and teenage pregnancies.
Many fear that a higher age of consent could lead to young men being packed off to reform homes on the basis of complaints by the irate parents of the young women.
Conservative former Lords Leader Baroness Young, a campaigner against the government's plans to lower the age of consent for gay men from 18 to 16, gave notice she would table an amendment aimed at blocking the repeal of Section 28.
While ministers had threatened to use the Parliament Act to push the age of consent measure through the Lords, the same act cannot be used to repeal Section 28 because the legislation began its current parliamentary passage in the upper house.
The courts grant a divorce to mark the end of a marriage that was valid when entered into, whereas an annulment is for a marriage that at no time was valid (as when one of the parties was under the age of consent at the time of the marriage).
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It is true that the Lords put up a considerable battle against changes to the age of consent and other measures - and in January 2010, the (Labour) government was defeated on an amendment to the Equalities Bill that would have forced religious bodies to, for example, employ gay people.
But Peter Kellner of the UK's YouGov polling agency said that opposition to gay rights legislation tended to be forgotten as soon as it became law, citing the examples of the UK's 1967 decriminalization of homosexuality and the changing of the law in 2000 to equalize the age of consent for straight and gay sex to 16.
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Monster says its "Army" members must be over age 13 to post on the website without parental consent and that "less than a small fraction of 1%" of website participants are younger than 13.
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