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It feels like only yesterday we were bidding adieu to openly gay former US Ambassador David Huebner, but like a gift from the Vatican itself, spunky Italian Carmelo Barbarello has arrived for his three-year stint as Italian Ambassador to NZ.

Barbarello who is married (sorry boys!) arrived in Wellington with his husband Javier Barca, and was welcomed by Rainbow Wellington with a party on Friday 3 October.

Barbarello was previously posted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Beunos Aires, Argentina and New Dehli, India. Barbarello and Barca married at the Spanish Embassy in Beunos Aires in 2012. Italy does not currently allow same-sex marriage.

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