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Contents:

• INTERVIEW-GREECE'S FIRST GAY MISTER HOP APPOTMENT HELPS ERO HOMOPHOBIA
• GREECE PERMS CIVIL PARTNERSHIP FOR GAY COUPL

INTERVIEW-GREECE'S FIRST GAY MISTER HOP APPOTMENT HELPS ERO HOMOPHOBIA

In the nearly six years that had elapsed sce ECRI’s last asssment, was noted that good practic had been ma a number of centre-right Greek ernment, followg groundbreakg legislatn implemented by s leftwg precsor – cludg civil unns for same-sex upl – had announced a 2021-25 natnal strategy for LGBTQI+ equaly and, for the first time, placed openly gay dividuals official posts. Siarly, a natnal actn plan agast racism and tolerance was adopted as one of Europe’s most socially nservative societi, the Mederranean untry has faced cricism for s failure to properly implement polici and root out ep-seated homophobia poed by leadg members of the Greek Orthodox church.

Bishops have publicly nounced homosexualy as a killg of Zak Kostopoulos, a gay activist and drag performer, broad daylight Athens four years ago, did much to highlight a culture of abe and impuny the untry’s police force. Gay Marriage⚭✖ Civil unnsCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✔ Legal, surgery not requiredNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyConversn Therapy✔ Banned. 9% of Greeks support the adoptn of children by same-sex upl69% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriagHistoryHomosexual activy Greece?

GREECE PERMS CIVIL PARTNERSHIP FOR GAY COUPL

This article was abolished wh an amendment that was voted on December 23, 2015LegalHomosexualy Greece beme legal 1951 by the new Penal Co, but some discrimatn laws agast homosexuals was valid until recently (article 347 of the Penal Co) marriage Greece? Current statSce Dec 23, 2015Civil unns In December 23, 2015, the Hellenic Parliament voted wh 193 vot (56 agast and 51 abstentns), the law on the extensn of the habatn agreement to homosexual upl.

In the new form, sexual orientatn is disnnected om the creria that mt be met by prospective blood (fe ferral)In orr to donate blood, blood donors had to fill out a form lled "Blood Donor History”, issued by the Natnal Blood Donatn Center, which stated that donatg blood is prohibed for “anyone who had been a homosexual relatnship sce 1977”Conversn therapy Greece? The worst thg is that she said this to actually fort me, " Albatros year, Albatros (their artistic name) published 'Flty Boy', a book scribg the challeng that genr queer children face Greece, a largely nservative untry where the fluential Orthodox Church teach that beg gay is a s.

"Of urse I felt the prsure to change, " said Albatros, g an artistic name and wearg a sparkly black face mask to ensure the book is not lked to a certa this month banned so-lled nversn therapy for mors, practic aimed at supprsg a person’s sexual orientatn or genr inty and which health experts and the lbian, gay, bisexual and trans muny worldwi have nmned as psychologilly harmful and, New Zealand and France crimalised nversn therapy earlier this year, jog a growg number of untri to outlaw the Mister Msokakis, who is tryg to break away om the tradnal image of a nservative lear and fac electns 2023, last year appoted a mtee to draft a natnal strategy for improvg LGBTQI+ rights.

"The ernment has also repelled a ban on blood donatns by gay men and has been trag civil servants on LGBTQI issu, said Msotakis's chief enomic adviser Alexis Greek LGBTQI+ muny has weled the reforms over the past , cludg allowg civil partnership among same-sex upl 2015 and the legal regnn of genr inty 2017. ATHENS – Greece legalized gay civil unns Tuday spe opposn om the Church and a rebelln by some right-wg members of the lg aln. Lawmakers voted 193 favor vers 56 agast the long-awaed reform, followg a heated 10-hour bate which supporters of the bill — some wearg rabow gay pri badg — trad barbs wh opponents.

Outsi parliament, gay rights mpaigners gathered wh banners readg “Love is the Law” and “All I want for Christmas is Equaly. Activists say regnn of same-sex civil partnerships is an important step towards gag greater acceptance a untry where the Orthodox Church still holds sway and where reports of homophobic vlence have creased recent years.

While many untri already allow same-sex marriage, Greece is one of the last European Unn stat to legalize gay civil unns.

Prsure for change creased after the European Court of Human Rights led two years ago that was discrimatory for the untry to exclu gay upl om existg legislatn givg tax, pensn and herance rights to unmarried heterosexuals. Bishop Seraphim of Piras lled homosexualy “unnatural lewdns” while the ntroversial Bishop Amvross of Kalavryta orred church his dce to sound funeral bells “ mourng” over the bill’s expected passage. “This will allow gay people to be more visible, ” said Nancy Papathanasu, a board member at the OLKE lbian and gay anizatn.

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. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.

As was 2013, when the qutn was last asked, attus on the acceptance of homosexualy are shaped by the untry which people live. Those Wtern Europe and the Ameris are generally more acceptg of homosexualy than are those Eastern Europe, Rsia, Ukrae, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Ai.

In many natns, there has been an creasg acceptance of homosexualy, cludg the Uned Stat, where 72% say should be accepted, pared wh jt 49% as recently as 2007. There also have been fairly large shifts acceptance of homosexualy over the past 17 years two very different plac: Mexi and Japan.

In many of the untri surveyed, there also are differenc on acceptance of homosexualy by age, tn, e and, some stanc, genr – and several s, the differenc are substantial. For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”).