The Summary Document of the Synodal Journey of the Churches in Italy, Leaven of Peace and Hope, was approved on 25 October 2025, after a previous draft had been rejected by delegates in April for, among other reasons, only vaguely describing the pastoral care of LGBTQ+ believers. While the final document adopted a more welcoming tone, the absence of the LGBTQ+ acronym reveals the unresolved nature of the topic and the tensions it brings to the forefront. Drawing on fieldwork and semi-structured interviews with about 60 participants in the Italian context, my paper argues that these debates are increasingly visible and polarizing not only across the broader Italian Church but also among LGBTQ+ Catholic individuals themselves. This internal diversity further complicates the divisions between "conservatives" and "progressives" that are often invoked when discussing the Catholic Church today, both in Italy and elsewhere. Concretely, my paper examines the divergences between two broad positions among LGBTQ+ Catholics in Italy: an "homonormative" position, which expresses appreciation for the Church and what has been achieved so far, and another that is dissatisfied with current developments and calls for a queer reimagining of what the Church could be. I argue that the central tension within the Italian Church is not reducible to a binary of acceptance versus non-acceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals, but concerns how LGBTQ+ Catholics themselves negotiate what it means to dispute and imagine the Church's future together. In this sense, their conflicting lived experiences and desires reveal Synodality to be an unresolved site of both opportunity and tension where hopes for renewal and deep-seated frustrations converge.