A Gui To Gay Athens for LGBTQ Travelers - Matador Network

Contents:

• GREECE GAY TRAVEL
• GAY GREECE TRAVEL GUI
• GAY HOLIDAYS GREECE & THE ISLANDS
• GAY GREECE: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??
• ATHENS GAY CISE CLUBS
• GAY ATHENS – A GUIDE TO THE GREEK CAPITAL FOR LGBTQIA2S+
• THE BEST ATHENS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ATHENS

GREECE GAY TRAVEL

Mykonos Town is also the beatg heart of the LGBTQ+ muny, wh gay bars like Jackie O’, Babylon, Porta, Kastro’s and Elysium.

LGBTQ+ travelers will also want to check out the XLSIOR gay ftival that tak plac Mykonos Town late Augt, sometim early September.

Athens has the largt LGBTQ+ muny Greece, particularly the Gazi neighborhood, which has an array of gay bar and clubs like Soda2. Mykonos island has one of the most famo LGBTQ+ scen the world and be a gay mec durg the summer months, which culmat wh the XLSIOR Ftival.

GAY GREECE TRAVEL GUI

Of urse, Mykonos is the one gay haven Greece, but LGBT+ visors should also fd great optns and welg lols all 5 lotns. Though not typilly known as a gay statn, Athens is very well known to all kds of travelers who e to immerse themselv the cy’s renowned history.

GAY HOLIDAYS GREECE & THE ISLANDS

Many LGBT+ visors may simply pass through the cy on their way to more gay-iendly Greek statns like Mykonos, but they’d be mistaken to skip Athens entirely or only drop to tch a glimpse of the Parthenon on their way to a more relaxg beach town. Over time, has bee slightly ls gay-foced as ’s bee gentrified but as a first-time visor, ’s still the place to start. As the pal cy of Greece wh nearly 4 ln people livg the metro area, you’ll fd a large selectn of gay and gay-iendly rtrants, f, bars and clubs.

One of the most popular and biggt gay events is XLSIOR scribed as Europe’s hottt annual summer gay circu ftival. Geranium Rince is loted jt 500m om Mykonos town and is another gay hotel available at a slight lower price. We won’t tell you not to go to Mykonos due to this, bee ankly you should and you’ll probably love , pecially wh how gay-iendly is.

Bis Santori, which is probably the most popular and touristy island of them all, Mykonos probably holds the tle of 2nd for the general visor but fely tak the lead of the Greek Island gay hotspot. Mykonos has for s been a getaway for gays as beme open and more liberal than Athens and all of the surroundg islands.

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Unlike Mykonos, you won’t fd any gay specific venu but the atmosphere is pretty open and gay-iendly overall.

“A lot of Greek gay guys have no ia this is gog on, ” Zak Kostopoulos, a wrer and activist, said of the Sami's scene. Many of the men turng tricks, on the other hand, don't nsir themselv gay bee, as they see , they're beg paid and they typilly are the top  the transactn, said Adonis Primikiris, who works wh the HIV awarens nonprof Checkpot. Wh ’s distct archecture, betiful ocean landsp, and lectable food, gay Greece travel not only provis a stunng experience, but is also highly affordable.

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Straight and gay tourists love Greece travel maly bee is warm, cheap, and luxur, all while havg world-class food and iendly lols.

Greece will also offer you unlimed cultural pursus filled wh gay pri ftivals, exhibs, and most importantly: fun-packed holidays! Drive 30 mut om the center of Athens and you’ll fd Limanakia, one of the most famo gay beach all of Greece. If you’re lookg for a tour that specifilly vers every popular LGBTQ+ statn the cy, sign up for Alternative Athens’ Gay and Lbian Athens Nightlife Tour.

On this tour, you will have time to vis several queer nightlife stutns — om popular gay bars to fashnable baret loung. In fact, a new kd of tourism, the gay and lbian tourism, has ma s appearance the last years Greece and the islands.

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The Greek society is not so open-md as for gay and lbian relatnships and their teractns wh straight people. The same stands for other areas and islands for gay holidays, such as Lvos island, Malia Crete island, Kavos Corfu island, Faliraki Rhos island and Gazi neighborhood Athens. Of urse, this do not mean that if a gay person go another Greek island or area, there will be any kd of discrimatn; jt means that the aforementned are the rorts where most gay people go and where anized gay facili exist.

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Apart om gay-iendly hotels and gay and lbian clubs, there are also travel agenci that anize gay tours around Greece and the Greek islands. Travelers stay gay-iendly hotels and receive piec of advice on the gay clubs and the gay beach of the island or the area.

Surf our webs to learn more about the gay and lbian statns Greece and the islands, to book gay-iendly hotels and get rmed about gay facili Greece.

‘Follow your gaydar’ is the ual stctn given Gazi, Athens’ most LGBT-iendly neighbourhood, wh s ever-changg but always abundant bars, f, rtrants and hotels. While known as Athens’ Gay Village, the bt part of Gazi is s diversy; this is also the trendit nightlife scene for everyone else. Mykonos, a jewel the Cyclas islands and jt a four-hour ferry ri om the maland, is also a gay travel mec, wh LGBT bars and hangouts stretchg along the wateront between the old harbour and the Panagia Paraportiani church.

Likely the most famo gay property on the island is Hotel Elysium, wh a sunset baret show by the pool bar that’s nsired an sential start to an eveng.

For one week Augt, Xlsr ftival draws 30, 000 partygoers and some of the biggt nam on the gay mic scene to outdoor venu.

In Athens there are lovely and lively central neighborhoods such as Monastiraki and Gazi where gay mglg blossoms earnt, wh a large number of excellent clubs, f and bars offerg qualy entertament attractg bright, betiful crowds. Top island statns like Mykonos and Santori as well as several other optns that have bee more gay-acmodatg over the years such as Skiathos and Paros, also offer the idyllic batn of stunng lotns and top notch venu wh an excg and enticg.

Greece's northern pal, Thsaloniki, is also beg a popular statn for gay tourists, somethg enthiastilly backed by the cy's progrsive Mayor Yiannis Boutaris, wh some great events (cludg an annual ternatnal gay film ftival) and lol as well as holiday packag geared to gay travelers om around the world now on offer.

Legal and social regnn and support for gay rights Greece uld be said to have been officially born 65 years ago, when gay sex was fally crimalized.

Acrdg to rearch on gay rights 49 European untri nducted by ILGA (the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn). In 2005 discrimatn agast gay dividuals was prohibed the workplace (but not the armed forc) and 2006 male prostutn was legalized.

A great social triumph was celebrated by the gay muny December 2015, when the ernment passed - wh a wi parliamentary majory - a legislatn grantg gay upl full marriage rights, offerg same-sex upl the optn of havg civil partnerships, th offerg them full marriage rights, but not necsarily. "Homophobia is still rampant the church, state, police and all polil parti wh meagre exceptns, " says gay psychotherapist and wrer Leo Kalyvorias, who has been volved gay rights activism for many years, "but this don't mean LGBT people don't live full happy liv, at least major urban centr. Although a passnate gay uple smoochg bang the middle of a village square is likely to be owned upon (or give an old man at a nearby kafenen a stroke), LGBT dividuals Greece- both the lol and pecially the tourist variety are generally weled wh open arms.

"Beg openly gay and PDA n be dangero certa areas but not tourist rorts, where lols have a laxer attu, " Kalyvorias says. Guys certaly get the better al when to optns for gay liftyle Greece, as bars, clubs, snas and f ter more to their sir.

Any gay visor worth his salt will know that post-dtrial Gazi, the area you will fd upon emergg om Kerameikos metro statn on the blue le, is the gay village of the pal, wh numero optns for all levels of entertament om dk 'til dawn and some hidn gems like art galleri or sign shops, as well as the popular Alexanr Sna, which also serv as a limed-space acmodatn. Eiris Square Monastiraki is another gay hotspot, where you n sip ffee or a drk at Rooster, or choose among a plethora of bars, rtrants, f and clubs as well as enjoyg lic Greek and ethnic street food, and stor sellg trendy vtage clothg and lorful flea market goods. Bookstore: An all-gay bookstore, Colorful Pla, (Antoniadou 6, Victoria Sq) Maly sells Greek language lerature but also has a variety of gay foreign prs, DVDs and gay gui books to Greece.

On the lol ont, Athens Pri is partnerg wh OLKE (Gay and Lbian Communy of Greece), Thsaloniki Pri and Posive Voice on the telephone hotle 1528 to support LGBT youth. Hotel R Athens a rtored neoclassil buildg the neighborhood of Metaxourge is a 41-room hotel terg exclively to gay and lbian clientele.

New Hotel on Filenon Street right by Syntagma Square, is part of a new generatn of upliftg sign hotels and gay-iendly, as is popular and stylish Frh Hotel a block om Athas Street near the Athens Market and close to Agia Iri Square. Anyone who knows anythg about the Greek islands knows that Mykonos is one of the world's leadg gay tourism statns - and one of the most fun too, among other hot plac like Barcelona and Ibiza.