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

Contents:

• GAY GREECE: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??
• 20 GAY GREEK GODS
• GAY ATHENS – A GUIDE TO THE GREEK CAPITAL FOR LGBTQIA2S+
• THE MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’

GAY GREECE: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??

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20 GAY GREEK GODS

This is due to the number of shops that have been opened recent years and are maly targeted at gay clients, makg Athens acquire s own lorful areas. This place is one of the top gay iendly choic if you want to enjoy your ffee the heart of Athens. Once you enter the club, you will sure feel that you are a part of the gay Greek muny.

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

The Apartment is a Gay Club Metaxourge wh mastream sounds and parti that promise you unfettable nights of fun! Shamone is the most famo entertag gay club wh theme nights, big parti, famo sgers and live shows and drag shows artists.

Wh a tramark of the Whe Tower, Thsaloniki holds tense thrills for gay tourists, sce great cultural events such as the Thsaloniki Pri or the Panorama Gay Ftival are enthiastilly supported.

Do not miss the Archaeologil Se Delos, the island of Apollo or the gay hotel Elysium. One of the most popular gay bar wh mastream mic for all tast, drag shows and cktails om sunset to sunrise. While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's advancement, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be boasted wh today's world religns.

THE MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’

While Homer never explicly stat a gay relatnship between Achill and sikick Patrocl, many scholars read a romantic nnectn between the two, as only Patrocl ever drew out a passnate si to the famoly arrogant warrr. Rearcher Johanna Hypatia-Cybelaia wr that lbian and gay vote worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, and that lbian port Pamphilia referred to the godss hymn as Artemis Pergaea.

Above: Athena, center, a mural by John Sger SargentAphrodeWhile the godss of love is not intified promently as lbian herself, the Greek poet Sappho (as sapphic) of Lbos (y, as lbian) told many homoerotic tal and named Aphrode as the greatt patron and ally of lbians and homosexuals wh the Greek pantheon of gods.

Above: Enrique Simo, El Juic Paris (1904)ErosWhile the bt-known myths of Eros pict the son of Aphrode as a fertily god -- the versn that proved spiratnal to the popularized Roman god Cupid -- later Greek myths portrayed Eros as one of several wged erot, and the one regard as a protector of homosexual culture, acrdg to rearch the scholarly book Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic the Ancient World. Gay iendly acmodatn AthensIf you are visg Athens for the first time as an LGBTQIA2S+ member and hatg on where to stay, we’ve got you vered.

The hotels and gay-iendly lotns are perfect to diffe any worri about beg an LGBTQIA2S+ member travelg abroad, and worried about safety and Area.

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.