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The documentary, om director Panayotis Evangelidis, tak a nostalgic look at the first gay and lbian marriag ever held Greece.

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WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

LGBT Rights Greece: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay marriage in greece *

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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.

GREECE HOLDS FIRST GAY WEDDGS

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.

GREECE'S FIRST GAY WEDDGS FY CHURCH AND STATE

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. Fourteen years ago, on the far-flung and Lilliputian island of Tilos, two same-sex upl wed a civil ceremony – the first gay and lbian marriag ever held Greece. The story of those civil marriag and the impact they had on the LGBTQ+ movement is the foc of “Tilos Weddgs, ” by director Panayotis Evangelidis, who offers a first-hand acunt of what he scrib as a “heroic perd” the stggle for gay rights Greece.

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