A 17-year-old was arrested on Tuesday night in Kavala, northern Greece, after allegedly verbally attacking a 21-year-old with homophobic slurs, the coast guard said on Wednesday.
LGBTQ
A 15-year-old boy in a village outside of Patra on the western coast of the Peloponnese was attacked by his father and uncle and sent to the hospital because he admitted to them that he was gay. What a courageous young man!
The northern port of Thessaloniki is hosting the EuroPride parade on Saturday evening, marking the end of a 10-day celebration of the LGBTQI community, with events that ranged from the awareness-raising and political to the fun.
The presence of Aristotle University at EuroPride 2024, which starts on Friday in Thessaloniki, is seen as a strong message of support to the LGBTQ+ community.
Hundreds gathered in Syntagma Square on June 15 to celebrate Athens Pride 2024. The LGBTQ+ community and other participants donned rainbow-colored clothing, elaborate makeup, and unique outfits, creating a vibrant atmosphere.
The Athens Bar Association initiated a disciplinary investigation on Thursday against prominent criminal lawyer Alexis Kougias following his homophobic comments about SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis.
Deputy Parliament speaker Olga Gerovasili had to cut off the leader of the far-right Spartiates (Spartans) party from addressing the House on Thursday after he made a homophobic comment aimed at the prime minister’s chief economic adviser.
Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis has condemned lawyer Alexis Kougias’ homophobic comments directed at opposition leader Stefanos Kasselakis.
SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has requested that a public prosecutor intervene after the law office of Alexis Kougias released a homophobic statement asking him to clarify whether he is the man or the woman in his same-sex marriage.
Pride month’s main event will be hosted in downtown Syntagma Square on Saturday.
The furor over their wedding in Albania was just the latest stage in what Alba Ahmetaj and Edlira Mara say has been a long struggle to get the same rights as heterosexual couples.
The prosecutor at Athens’ Appeals Court proposed on Thursday the upholding of the guilty verdicts for the two men convicted of fatally beating Zak Kostopoulos, a gay rights activist, during an altercation in a jewelry shop in downtown Athens on September 21, 2018.
The serious decline in birth rates in Turkey is an “existential threat” and a “disaster” for the country, its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said.
A vast survey by an EU rights body has found that 44% of LGBTIQ people in Greece have faced discrimination in at least one area of their life in the year before the survey.
An organisation representing young LGBTQ people in Athens has condemned an attack on its offices, blaming it on the youth wing of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group.
The incident that shook Thessaloniki to its core a couple of days ago was an appalling scene: a mob of angry youngsters chasing, throwing bottles, and verbally assaulting two LGBTQ+ individuals in one of the city’s most prominent locations.
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