Despite significant social and political changes in personal life in recent decades, the focus of mainstream sociological literature on family has been the heterosexual, monogamous, and reproductive couple. Surprisingly, there is still little research exploring nonconventional relational politics and policies and their impact on intimate biographies in Southern Europe. This Special Section aims at filling this gap by exploring a range of topics concerning the intimate life and politics experienced by consensually non-monogamous lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people (LGBTQ). In so doing, the articles selected for this issue bridge an important gap between LGBTQ studies and nonmonogamies, with a particular emphasis on the current political and cultural contexts of Southern European countries.Within the populous field of non-monogamies, polyamory is a central but still contested term (Klesse, 2006(Klesse, , 2014 generally understood to be the practice of consensually engaging in usually long-term sexual and/or affective relationships with more than one person simultaneously (Haritaworn et al., 2006). Thus, it has been described as responsible (Lano and Parry, 1995) or ethical (Pallotta-Chiarolli, 1995;Veaux and Rickert, 2014) in order to distinguish it from cheating. The centrality of critical consent (Bauer, 2014) makes polyamory a significant case study when analysing intimacy as a biographical