Maybe you should go on Google Maps and print out lists of gay bars in major Italian cities. Rome is packed with them, and you'll find them pretty much everywhere else. Florence is a particular hotspot, famous for its outdoor gay cruising scene.

And it's not tourists making up the bulk of the action, obviously.

Your coworker sounds like a really disgusting person. I'd love to shove some facts in their bigoted face.

Why are so many people so foul and evil?