GAY ATHENS - A GUIDE TO THE GREEK CAPITAL FOR LGBTQIA2S+

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• THE BEST ATHENS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ATHENS
• GAY ATHENS – A GUIDE TO THE GREEK CAPITAL FOR LGBTQIA2S+
• LGBTQI+ TRAVELERS: A GUI TO GAY ATHENS
• EXPLORG LGBTQ CULTURE ATHENS SCE STARTG NOVEMBER 2017, BEQUEER HAS BEE ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR QUEER CLUBS ATHENS | COURTY OF BEQUEER GEE MOURATIDIS 16 DECEMBER 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT THOUGH PERHAPS BETTER KNOWN FOR ANCIENT MONUMENTS THAN VIBRANT QUEER CULTURE, ATHENS HAS A BURGEONG LGBTQ CULTURAL SCENE THAT SPANS CLUBS, BARS, FTIVALS AND MMS. VIEW ALL TRIPS PRI IS A CENTRAL EVENT ON THE ATHENS LGBTQ LENDAR, BUT A NUMBER OF SMALL IATIV ARE ALSO SHAPG THE SCENE | © BASILT / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO OWG TO PREVAILG TRADNAL ATTUS, LARGE PART LKED TO THE NSERVATIVE FLUENCE OF THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH, QUEERNS GREECE IS OFTEN AN EVERYDAY FIGHT FOR VISIBILY. BUT IS PRECISELY THIS STGGLE THAT MAK ATHENS SUCH A FASCATG CY TO EXPLORE WHEN TO LGBTQ CULTURE – SPE OF THE CHALLENG FACED BY THE LOL QUEER MUNY, A GROWG NUMBER OF BARS, CLUBS AND CREATIVE ANISATNS LIE AT THE HEART OF ATHENS’S EVOLVG LGBTQ SCENE. IN PARTICULAR, THE HIP NEIGHBOURHOOD OF GAZI IS HOME TO A PLETHORA OF GAY-IENDLY SPAC, CLUBS AND BARS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP GREECE ICELAND INDIA BALI ECUADOR MOROC JAPAN SPA EGYPT CROATIA THAILAND MEXI TURKEY SOUTH AI AMOQA (ATHENS MM OF QUEER ARTS) AMOQA WAS FOUND 2015 AS A HYBRID SPACE FOR THE PROMOTN OF REARCH TO GENR AND SEXUALY, AND FOR THE HOSTG OF A RICH CULTURAL PROGRAMME. THEIR LENDAR CLUS ART PERFORMANC, SCREENGS OF EXPERIMENTAL QUEER FILMS, TECH WORKSHOPS AND MIC GIGS, AS WELL AS DISCSNS ON TOPICS RELATG TO GENR. FURTHERMORE, THE TEAM AT AMOQA ARE BUILDG AN LGBTQI+ ARCHIVE, LLECTG ARTWORKS, Z, FILMS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TERVIEWS OM THE GREEK QUEER MOVEMENT. AMOQA’S GOAL IS TO ACT AS A “MEETG POT” FOR THE WORKG OF ARTISTS AND REARCHERS WORKG ON BODY POLICS AND GENR REARCH. IN ADDN, THE VENUE FUNCTNS AS A SAFE SPACE, WHICH A WI RANGE OF ACTIVIST/FEMIST/QUEER GROUPS N MEET AND HOLD EVENTS. FRIDAYS AT BEQUEER ARE DITED TO DRAG SHOWS | COURTY OF BEQUEER COLOR YOUTH COLOR YOUTH WAS TABLISHED 2011 AS A SAFE PLACE FOR LGBTQ YOUTH TO EELY EXPRS THEMSELV AND ASSERT THEIR RIGHTS. THE ANISATN’S MISSN IS TO HIGHLIGHT THE PROBLEMS LGBTQ PEOPLE FACE THEIR EVERYDAY LIV AND THE ROLE OF THE MUNY SOCIAL AND POLIL AFFAIRS. ACRDG TO THE TEAM AT COLOR YOUTH, THEIR MISSN IS TO RAISE SOCIAL AWARENS ABOUT THE GREEK LGBTQ MUNY. THEY DO THIS BY LOBBYG FOR CHANG TO THE LEGAL AMEWORK ON GENR INTY AND HOSTG EQUENT WORKSHOPS, SCREENGS AND ACTIVI THROUGHOUT ATHENS. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP QUEER ARCHIVE ATHENS QUEER ARCHIVE ATHENS IS A CREATIVE PLATFORM BRGG TOGETHER LOL AND TERNATNAL ARTISTS, CULTURAL ANISERS AND STUTNS. ESTABLISHED 2013, THE PLATFORM FOC ON PRENTG PROVOTIVE AND POWERFUL ARTISTIC IAS. THROUGH FILM PRODUCTN, ART EXHIBNS, WORKSHOPS, PARTI AND FILM SCREENGS (OPEN TO ALL), THE QUEER ARCHIVE AIMS TO ENDORSE PROGRSIVE IAS AND ENURAGE TELLECTUAL DIALOGUE BY PROVIDG OPPORTUNI FOR TERACTN BETWEEN DIFFERENT MUNI. IN FEBARY 2020, THE ANISATN WILL HOST THE FIRST EDN OF THE QUEER ARCHIVE FTIVAL, SHOWSG THE WORK OF UPG AND TABLISHED LGBTQ ARTISTS WH THE SUPPORT OF THE STEGI – ONASSIS FOUNDATN. STRAP-ON UNIRNS SET UP 2015 BY FOUR IENDS, STRAP-ON UNIRNS ANIS MONTHLY PARTI, WH THE GOAL OF PROVIDG A SAFE AND FUN ENVIRONMENT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY. “WE STARTED THIS TEAM BEE WE SAW A NEED OM QUEER PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN A SAFE SPACE,” -FOUNR IRI TELLS CULTURE TRIP, “AND, OF URSE, BEE WE LOVE MIC AND PARTYG!” BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. “ATHENS’S QUEER SCENE HAS BEEN BOOMG OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS. MORE AND MORE PARTI ARE BEG ANISED, WHILE QUEERNS HAS STARTED TO BEE TRENDY ‘ALTERNATIVE’ CULTURE,” SHE SAYS. WHEN ASKED ABOUT THEIR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE, IRI SE BIG THGS AHEAD: “OUR PLAN IS TO NTUE TO WORK WH QUEER ARTISTS AND LLECTIV OM ABROAD AND BRG EXCG NEW THGS TO THE CY’S LGBTQI+ SCENE AND EVEN TAKE OUR EVENTS TO THE RT OF EUROPE.” STRAP-ON UNIRNS ANIS MONTHLY PARTI FOR THE ATHENIAN LGBTQ MUNY | COURTY OF STRAP-ON UNIRNS ATHENS FTIVAL OF QUEER PERFORMANCE THE ATHENS FTIVAL OF QUEER PERFORMANCE IS N BY PERFORMERS, AMICS AND ACTIVISTS OF THE ATHENS QUEER SCENE, AND IS THE ONLY SELF-FUND FTIVAL OF QUEER CULTURE GREECE, SUPPORTED EXCLIVELY BY CROWDFUNDG. AFOQP PRENTS THE DIVERSE ASPECTS OF ATHENS’S QUEER PERFORMANCE MUNY. THE FTIVAL ACTS AS A MEETG POT AND PLATFORM FOR TERNATNAL ARTISTS AND THKERS WORKG ON LIVE AND MEDIA PERFORMANCE ART. THE FTIVAL’S PROGRAMME CLUS A VARIETY OF ART FORMS, CLUDG DRAG SHOWS, EXPERIMENTAL MIC, VISED THEATRE, NCEPTUAL ART AND POLIL MANIFTOS. BEQUEER SCE BURSTG ONTO THE ATHENIAN NIGHTLIFE SCENE NOVEMBER 2017, BEQUEER HAS BEE ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR QUEER CLUBS ATHENS. “WE WANTED TO OPEN A SAFE, STABLE AND CLIVE SPACE, WHERE PEOPLE OF ALL GENRS AND SEXUAL ORIENTATNS N FEEL FORTABLE,” SAYS ANGELIKI, ONE OF THE TWO FOUNRS. BEQUEER IS OPEN ONLY ON FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS, BUT THE ARE, WHOUT FAIL, NIGHTS TO REMEMBER: “FRIDAYS ARE DITED TO DRAG SHOWS. IN ADDN TO OUR RINT DRAG QUEENS, WE VE OTHER PEOPLE WHO WANT TO PERFORM OUR CLUB. ON SATURDAYS, WE ANISE PARTI WH VAR DJS,” EXPLAS ANGELIKI. SET THE HIP GAZI NEIGHBOURHOOD – A HUB OF QUEER CULTURE ATHENS – BEQUEER REGULARLY HOSTS SPECIAL EVENTS, OFTEN SUPPORT OF RELEVANT . “THE MOST MEMORABLE EVENT WAS THE FUNDRAISER AND TRIBUTE TO ZACKIE OH AFTER HER BTAL MURR,” SAYS ANGELIKI, REFERRG TO LGBTQ ACTIVIST AND PERFORMER ZAK KOSTOPOULOS (ZACKIE OH) WHO WAS BEATEN TO ATH CENTRAL ATHENS SEPTEMBER 2018. “THIS WAS, WHOUT A DOUBT, THE MOST MOVG NIGHT WE EXPERIENCED. WE WILL NEVER FET THIS.” BEQUEER AIMS TO PROVI A SAFE AND CLIVE SPACE | COURTY OF BEQUEER QUEER INK FOUND 2016, QUEER INK IS A PUBLISHG IATIVE SPECIALISG FEMIST AND QUEER POLICS. THEIR FOC IS MALY ON LERARY WORKS RELATED TO THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF GENR NON-NFORMG DIVIDUALS AND SEXUAL MORI. SCE 2018, NIKOS MOCHI GEU HAS N POETRY SLAMS, WH THE GOAL OF TRODUCG NEW WRERS TO A BROAR DIENCE. “EHER DUE TO THE SUBJECT OF THEIR WORK OR DUE TO THE NORMS IMPOSED BY MASTREAM PUBLISHG HO, THE WRERS MIGHT NOT FD A WAY TO PUBLISH THEIR WORK,” SAID NIKOS. “THE QUEER SCENE NEEDS A PUBLISHG HOE, BUT NNOT SUPPORT AT PRENT. AT QUEER INK, WE WANT TO BUILD A MUNY THAT WILL CELEBRATE THE CREATIVY OF S MEMBERS AND WILL MUNITE THEIR WORK TO A WIR DIENCE.” SO FAR, THEY HAVE PUBLISHED SIX BOOKS AND HOSTED OVER 15 POETRY SLAMS ATHENS, PROVIDG A PLATFORM FOR A DIVERSE GROUP OF PERFORMERS, WRERS AND REARCHERS. ACRDG TO NIKOS, AMONG THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS QUEER INK HAS ANISED WERE “WHAT IS QUEER WRG?”AND “TALK ABOUT ZAK/ZACKIE,” A LERARY NIGHT VG THE LOL MUNY TO MOURN THE ACTIVIST’S MURR. QUEER INK IS A PUBLISHG LLECTIVE FOCG ON FEMIST AND QUEER POLICS KOL CLUB ATHENS KOL CLUB IS THE OLST ATHENIAN DRAG SHOW CLUB, MAKG S BUT ON THE ATHENIAN PARTY SCENE BACK 1994. SEMAL MORE WAYS THAN ONE, KOL WAS ALSO THE FIRST CLUB TO HOLD SHOWS PERFORMED BY TRANSGENR ARTISTS. “KOL” IS THE GREEK WORD FOR “DOLLS”, A TERM EQUENTLY ED GREEK TO SCRIBE A BETIFUL WOMAN. “AT ONE POT, I RATED THE CLUB WH MANNEQUS TO MAKE THE WHOLE THG STICK,” SAYS THE OWNER, MARILOU FRAGIADAKI. EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, THE ARTISTS PERFORM DRAG AND BARET ACTS, SPIRED BY CLASSIC SHOWS, GREEK POP CULTURE AND BROADWAY HS. “EVEN THOUGH WHAT WE DO IS SUPPOSED TO BE HUMORO, WE TAKE OUR JOB VERY SERLY,” EXPLAS MARILOU. HAVG SPENT MOST OF HER ADULT LIFE BERL, MARILOU ADMS THAT SHE MISS . “MY LIFE ATHENS IS NOT BETTER THAN WAS BERL, BUT I N ADJT. WHEN I LEFT GREECE, THGS WERE VERY BAD FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY. THERE ARE STILL PROBLEMS, BUT AT LEAST SOME PROGRS IS BEG MA.” VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• ATHENS GAY DISTRICT: GAZI
• ATHENS GEIA GAY GUI - SPENDG THE WEEKEND ATHENS, GA
• ATHENS GAY MAP
• ATHENS GAY RTRANTS
• THE GAY & LBIAN SCENE ATHENS

THE BEST ATHENS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ATHENS

The DJ tri to alternate ternatnal gay divas (Katy Perry, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, etc..

This roarg all-day hnt lnched the gay lonizatn of pretty Agia Iri Square. If you want to meet Greek bears, Big Bar nearby serv up a mellow mood, welg staff, gay anthems and themed nights—along wh rivers of beer.

Noiz will keep you dancg until the early morng wh a mostly lbian crowd; while Soda2 is one of the most tablished gay clubs town wh a mastream mob and two stag. If you dare to bare, explore Athens’ most famo gay nudist swimmg spot at Limanakia.

GAY ATHENS – A GUIDE TO THE GREEK CAPITAL FOR LGBTQIA2S+

Sultry Athens may not wear s rabow hu as loudly as Mykonos or Amsterdam; but the Greek pal has a boomg gay and lbian scene that’s wag to wele you wh open arms, all year round. From where to party, where to stay and what to do, here’s your gui to gay Athens.

Drive 30 mut om the center of Athens and you’ll fd Limanakia, one of the most famo gay beach all of Greece. Unlike many other queer nightclubs and bars the cy, Noiz is not solely dited to drawg gay men. 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.

LGBTQI+ TRAVELERS: A GUI TO GAY ATHENS

The hotels and gay-iendly lotns are perfect to diffe any worri about beg an LGBTQIA2S+ member travelg abroad, and worried about safety and acceptance. Today, is a meltg pot of cultur, ethnici, and now, orientatns, havg bee an unofficial gay district. It’s bee synonymo wh entertament and nightlife, thanks to a medley of nightclubs, rtrants, shops, rtrants, and gay bars.

A For Athens n be found on almost every list of the bt gay-iendly hotels Athens. If you want all the perks of a gay-iendly hotel but wh a si of luxury, Hotel Kg Gee is the one. This betiful serene hotel is the perfect gay uple getaway if you’d rather stay somewhere more private and romantic, rather than somewhere by and full of partyg travellers.

EXPLORG LGBTQ CULTURE ATHENS SCE STARTG NOVEMBER 2017, BEQUEER HAS BEE ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR QUEER CLUBS ATHENS | COURTY OF BEQUEER GEE MOURATIDIS 16 DECEMBER 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT THOUGH PERHAPS BETTER KNOWN FOR ANCIENT MONUMENTS THAN VIBRANT QUEER CULTURE, ATHENS HAS A BURGEONG LGBTQ CULTURAL SCENE THAT SPANS CLUBS, BARS, FTIVALS AND MMS. VIEW ALL TRIPS PRI IS A CENTRAL EVENT ON THE ATHENS LGBTQ LENDAR, BUT A NUMBER OF SMALL IATIV ARE ALSO SHAPG THE SCENE | © BASILT / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO OWG TO PREVAILG TRADNAL ATTUS, LARGE PART LKED TO THE NSERVATIVE FLUENCE OF THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH, QUEERNS GREECE IS OFTEN AN EVERYDAY FIGHT FOR VISIBILY. BUT IS PRECISELY THIS STGGLE THAT MAK ATHENS SUCH A FASCATG CY TO EXPLORE WHEN TO LGBTQ CULTURE – SPE OF THE CHALLENG FACED BY THE LOL QUEER MUNY, A GROWG NUMBER OF BARS, CLUBS AND CREATIVE ANISATNS LIE AT THE HEART OF ATHENS’S EVOLVG LGBTQ SCENE. IN PARTICULAR, THE HIP NEIGHBOURHOOD OF GAZI IS HOME TO A PLETHORA OF GAY-IENDLY SPAC, CLUBS AND BARS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP GREECE ICELAND INDIA BALI ECUADOR MOROC JAPAN SPA EGYPT CROATIA THAILAND MEXI TURKEY SOUTH AI AMOQA (ATHENS MM OF QUEER ARTS) AMOQA WAS FOUND 2015 AS A HYBRID SPACE FOR THE PROMOTN OF REARCH TO GENR AND SEXUALY, AND FOR THE HOSTG OF A RICH CULTURAL PROGRAMME. THEIR LENDAR CLUS ART PERFORMANC, SCREENGS OF EXPERIMENTAL QUEER FILMS, TECH WORKSHOPS AND MIC GIGS, AS WELL AS DISCSNS ON TOPICS RELATG TO GENR. FURTHERMORE, THE TEAM AT AMOQA ARE BUILDG AN LGBTQI+ ARCHIVE, LLECTG ARTWORKS, Z, FILMS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TERVIEWS OM THE GREEK QUEER MOVEMENT. AMOQA’S GOAL IS TO ACT AS A “MEETG POT” FOR THE WORKG OF ARTISTS AND REARCHERS WORKG ON BODY POLICS AND GENR REARCH. IN ADDN, THE VENUE FUNCTNS AS A SAFE SPACE, WHICH A WI RANGE OF ACTIVIST/FEMIST/QUEER GROUPS N MEET AND HOLD EVENTS. FRIDAYS AT BEQUEER ARE DITED TO DRAG SHOWS | COURTY OF BEQUEER COLOR YOUTH COLOR YOUTH WAS TABLISHED 2011 AS A SAFE PLACE FOR LGBTQ YOUTH TO EELY EXPRS THEMSELV AND ASSERT THEIR RIGHTS. THE ANISATN’S MISSN IS TO HIGHLIGHT THE PROBLEMS LGBTQ PEOPLE FACE THEIR EVERYDAY LIV AND THE ROLE OF THE MUNY SOCIAL AND POLIL AFFAIRS. ACRDG TO THE TEAM AT COLOR YOUTH, THEIR MISSN IS TO RAISE SOCIAL AWARENS ABOUT THE GREEK LGBTQ MUNY. THEY DO THIS BY LOBBYG FOR CHANG TO THE LEGAL AMEWORK ON GENR INTY AND HOSTG EQUENT WORKSHOPS, SCREENGS AND ACTIVI THROUGHOUT ATHENS. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP QUEER ARCHIVE ATHENS QUEER ARCHIVE ATHENS IS A CREATIVE PLATFORM BRGG TOGETHER LOL AND TERNATNAL ARTISTS, CULTURAL ANISERS AND STUTNS. ESTABLISHED 2013, THE PLATFORM FOC ON PRENTG PROVOTIVE AND POWERFUL ARTISTIC IAS. THROUGH FILM PRODUCTN, ART EXHIBNS, WORKSHOPS, PARTI AND FILM SCREENGS (OPEN TO ALL), THE QUEER ARCHIVE AIMS TO ENDORSE PROGRSIVE IAS AND ENURAGE TELLECTUAL DIALOGUE BY PROVIDG OPPORTUNI FOR TERACTN BETWEEN DIFFERENT MUNI. IN FEBARY 2020, THE ANISATN WILL HOST THE FIRST EDN OF THE QUEER ARCHIVE FTIVAL, SHOWSG THE WORK OF UPG AND TABLISHED LGBTQ ARTISTS WH THE SUPPORT OF THE STEGI – ONASSIS FOUNDATN. STRAP-ON UNIRNS SET UP 2015 BY FOUR IENDS, STRAP-ON UNIRNS ANIS MONTHLY PARTI, WH THE GOAL OF PROVIDG A SAFE AND FUN ENVIRONMENT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY. “WE STARTED THIS TEAM BEE WE SAW A NEED OM QUEER PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN A SAFE SPACE,” -FOUNR IRI TELLS CULTURE TRIP, “AND, OF URSE, BEE WE LOVE MIC AND PARTYG!” BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. “ATHENS’S QUEER SCENE HAS BEEN BOOMG OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS. MORE AND MORE PARTI ARE BEG ANISED, WHILE QUEERNS HAS STARTED TO BEE TRENDY ‘ALTERNATIVE’ CULTURE,” SHE SAYS. WHEN ASKED ABOUT THEIR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE, IRI SE BIG THGS AHEAD: “OUR PLAN IS TO NTUE TO WORK WH QUEER ARTISTS AND LLECTIV OM ABROAD AND BRG EXCG NEW THGS TO THE CY’S LGBTQI+ SCENE AND EVEN TAKE OUR EVENTS TO THE RT OF EUROPE.” STRAP-ON UNIRNS ANIS MONTHLY PARTI FOR THE ATHENIAN LGBTQ MUNY | COURTY OF STRAP-ON UNIRNS ATHENS FTIVAL OF QUEER PERFORMANCE THE ATHENS FTIVAL OF QUEER PERFORMANCE IS N BY PERFORMERS, AMICS AND ACTIVISTS OF THE ATHENS QUEER SCENE, AND IS THE ONLY SELF-FUND FTIVAL OF QUEER CULTURE GREECE, SUPPORTED EXCLIVELY BY CROWDFUNDG. AFOQP PRENTS THE DIVERSE ASPECTS OF ATHENS’S QUEER PERFORMANCE MUNY. THE FTIVAL ACTS AS A MEETG POT AND PLATFORM FOR TERNATNAL ARTISTS AND THKERS WORKG ON LIVE AND MEDIA PERFORMANCE ART. THE FTIVAL’S PROGRAMME CLUS A VARIETY OF ART FORMS, CLUDG DRAG SHOWS, EXPERIMENTAL MIC, VISED THEATRE, NCEPTUAL ART AND POLIL MANIFTOS. BEQUEER SCE BURSTG ONTO THE ATHENIAN NIGHTLIFE SCENE NOVEMBER 2017, BEQUEER HAS BEE ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR QUEER CLUBS ATHENS. “WE WANTED TO OPEN A SAFE, STABLE AND CLIVE SPACE, WHERE PEOPLE OF ALL GENRS AND SEXUAL ORIENTATNS N FEEL FORTABLE,” SAYS ANGELIKI, ONE OF THE TWO FOUNRS. BEQUEER IS OPEN ONLY ON FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS, BUT THE ARE, WHOUT FAIL, NIGHTS TO REMEMBER: “FRIDAYS ARE DITED TO DRAG SHOWS. IN ADDN TO OUR RINT DRAG QUEENS, WE VE OTHER PEOPLE WHO WANT TO PERFORM OUR CLUB. ON SATURDAYS, WE ANISE PARTI WH VAR DJS,” EXPLAS ANGELIKI. SET THE HIP GAZI NEIGHBOURHOOD – A HUB OF QUEER CULTURE ATHENS – BEQUEER REGULARLY HOSTS SPECIAL EVENTS, OFTEN SUPPORT OF RELEVANT . “THE MOST MEMORABLE EVENT WAS THE FUNDRAISER AND TRIBUTE TO ZACKIE OH AFTER HER BTAL MURR,” SAYS ANGELIKI, REFERRG TO LGBTQ ACTIVIST AND PERFORMER ZAK KOSTOPOULOS (ZACKIE OH) WHO WAS BEATEN TO ATH CENTRAL ATHENS SEPTEMBER 2018. “THIS WAS, WHOUT A DOUBT, THE MOST MOVG NIGHT WE EXPERIENCED. WE WILL NEVER FET THIS.” BEQUEER AIMS TO PROVI A SAFE AND CLIVE SPACE | COURTY OF BEQUEER QUEER INK FOUND 2016, QUEER INK IS A PUBLISHG IATIVE SPECIALISG FEMIST AND QUEER POLICS. THEIR FOC IS MALY ON LERARY WORKS RELATED TO THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF GENR NON-NFORMG DIVIDUALS AND SEXUAL MORI. SCE 2018, NIKOS MOCHI GEU HAS N POETRY SLAMS, WH THE GOAL OF TRODUCG NEW WRERS TO A BROAR DIENCE. “EHER DUE TO THE SUBJECT OF THEIR WORK OR DUE TO THE NORMS IMPOSED BY MASTREAM PUBLISHG HO, THE WRERS MIGHT NOT FD A WAY TO PUBLISH THEIR WORK,” SAID NIKOS. “THE QUEER SCENE NEEDS A PUBLISHG HOE, BUT NNOT SUPPORT AT PRENT. AT QUEER INK, WE WANT TO BUILD A MUNY THAT WILL CELEBRATE THE CREATIVY OF S MEMBERS AND WILL MUNITE THEIR WORK TO A WIR DIENCE.” SO FAR, THEY HAVE PUBLISHED SIX BOOKS AND HOSTED OVER 15 POETRY SLAMS ATHENS, PROVIDG A PLATFORM FOR A DIVERSE GROUP OF PERFORMERS, WRERS AND REARCHERS. ACRDG TO NIKOS, AMONG THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS QUEER INK HAS ANISED WERE “WHAT IS QUEER WRG?”AND “TALK ABOUT ZAK/ZACKIE,” A LERARY NIGHT VG THE LOL MUNY TO MOURN THE ACTIVIST’S MURR. QUEER INK IS A PUBLISHG LLECTIVE FOCG ON FEMIST AND QUEER POLICS KOL CLUB ATHENS KOL CLUB IS THE OLST ATHENIAN DRAG SHOW CLUB, MAKG S BUT ON THE ATHENIAN PARTY SCENE BACK 1994. SEMAL MORE WAYS THAN ONE, KOL WAS ALSO THE FIRST CLUB TO HOLD SHOWS PERFORMED BY TRANSGENR ARTISTS. “KOL” IS THE GREEK WORD FOR “DOLLS”, A TERM EQUENTLY ED GREEK TO SCRIBE A BETIFUL WOMAN. “AT ONE POT, I RATED THE CLUB WH MANNEQUS TO MAKE THE WHOLE THG STICK,” SAYS THE OWNER, MARILOU FRAGIADAKI. EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, THE ARTISTS PERFORM DRAG AND BARET ACTS, SPIRED BY CLASSIC SHOWS, GREEK POP CULTURE AND BROADWAY HS. “EVEN THOUGH WHAT WE DO IS SUPPOSED TO BE HUMORO, WE TAKE OUR JOB VERY SERLY,” EXPLAS MARILOU. HAVG SPENT MOST OF HER ADULT LIFE BERL, MARILOU ADMS THAT SHE MISS . “MY LIFE ATHENS IS NOT BETTER THAN WAS BERL, BUT I N ADJT. WHEN I LEFT GREECE, THGS WERE VERY BAD FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY. THERE ARE STILL PROBLEMS, BUT AT LEAST SOME PROGRS IS BEG MA.” VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

But, ’s still close to all the nightclubs and gay-iendly spots so if you do feel like a ltle excement, you don’t have far to go. Asi om the obv Acropolis & Parthenon and the wonrful Acropolis Mm there are many other thgs to do Athens that the gay muny like to do cludg;.

ATHENS GAY DISTRICT: GAZI

Big Olive Walks “Tal of Same Sex Love” – a walkg tour of Greece’s history of gay love. Athens has a wealth of popular rtrants, nightclubs, and bars equented by the gay muny.

Prosopa is an amazg gay-iendly rtrant wh some pretty mouthwaterg food. Athens may not be at the top of the “most gay-iendly ci worldwi” but s LGBTQI+ scene has seen a lot of new addns and chang over the past years.

So, LGBTQI+ travelers here is a tailed gui to gay Athens for all tast and ag.

ATHENS GEIA GAY GUI - SPENDG THE WEEKEND ATHENS, GA

Especially if you are planng to stay and explore the central neighborhoods of the cy, you’ll have no problem spottg gay-iendly f, bars and events and mglg wh the lol crowds.

ATHENS GAY MAP

Here you’ll be able to fd gay-iendly spots that are signed to ter to every age and preference. Home to several gay-iendly plac, Gazi has had the reputatn of Athens’ most gay-iendly neighborhood for over a . Their narrow streets brim wh numero gay-iendly bars and f that will leave no visor unsatisfied.

Athens is home to an abundance of gay bars and f spread throughout the most central neighborhoods like Kerameikos, Syntagma and Monastiraki, rangg om unrground hip bars to zy all-day f and flashy cktail bars. In most s, gay bars and clubs are found the neighborhoods of Kerameikos (Gazi), Monastiraki and Psyrri downtown Athens.

Jt a few mut away om Gazi Square, S-Cape is a relatively spac gay nightclub that featur several dance floors and bars where guts n socialize and dance unr the sounds of electronic techno mic. Shamone Club is a splashy gay nightclub that equently hosts dance performanc, live Dj sets and themed parti the neighborhood of Kerameikos.

ATHENS GAY RTRANTS

This one is probably the most well-known gay nightclub Athens, pecially among younger people. From alternative cultural spac and galleri to unpretent f and bars, this gay gui to Athens has all. In particular, the hip neighbourhood of Gazi is home to a plethora of gay-iendly spac, clubs and bars.

THE GAY & LBIAN SCENE ATHENS

While Athens do not have an intified gay district, most gay life n be found around the Gazi neighborhood. Formerly a gas works area, Gazi has shed s once dtrial sk, and is now home Athens do not have an intified gay district, most gay life n be found around the Gazi neighborhood.

Formerly a gas works area, Gazi has shed s once dtrial sk, and is now home to a buzzg muny of gay-iendly bars, rtrants, and clubs. This attracts a gay crowd most nights, and offers a terrace which looks out onto Gazi’s ma square - the perfect place to people-watch!

While Athens may be a ltle more nservative terms of an LGBTQ scene, there is no shortage of place to go gay clubbg the cy. Here, you n not only experience an active cisg scene, but also other gay entertament optns, cludg a bar, movie projectns, and a foam more.

Their most famo film is about kaliarnta, the dialect ed by Greek cross-drsg prostut and gay men to avoid persecutn sce the 1940s. Furthermore, the annual report of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) dit this wele.

After legalizg homosexualy 1951, Greece allowed civil partnerships for same-sex upl 2015. Athens provis really many gay-iendly rtrants, bars, clubs, and even snas. Gazi district is close to Acropolis and is very popular among the gay muny as well.

Rtrants and fés here are also gay-iendly so that you n vis the area fortably. There’s also this ftival lled XLSIOR Mykonos Internatnal Summer Gay Ftival.

If you’re not satisfied wh the answer to “is Greece gay iendly”, keep readg the followg sectns.