#queer greece

[kaliarda]

hyakinthosss shot by Phillip Prokopiou

[axlna]

Greek novelist Auguste Corteau and his husband Anastasios Samouilidis, the first homosexual couple to be married at Athens' city hall, March 7th 2024

[historyofmemes]

News everyone! Greece is now the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize civil same-sex marriage!

The same bill also gives same-sex couples full parental rights!

[todayontumblr]

Friday, February 16.

Some good news.

News of a good disposition seems more than a little sparse right now, so you really have to make the most of it, as and when.

There is some news, however, from Greece. And this news is pretty, pretty good. So we are going to break this particularly good news to you the only way we know how. Enjoy it y'all.

[destielmemenews]

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[four-otters-in-a-trenchcoat]

It's fucking legal

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Same-sex marriage is officially legal in Greece starting today! One win for Human Rights in this mess that our country is. One more big step in our LGBT+ history! Rejoice for your fellow LGBT+ people in Greece and wish us all the best! 💙

[immovable-tortoise]

GREECE JUST LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE GREECE JUST LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE AAAAAAAAA IM SO FUCKING HAPPY

[dolokhoded]

with greece legalizing gay marriage and everything i'm so tired of people diminishing queerness in greece to "oh your ancient greek ancestors would be proud ! alexander the great would be proud ! achilles would be proud sappho would be proud plato would be proud" etcetc.

queer rights progressing in greece wouldn't make our "ancient greek ancestors" proud because they had an entirely different concept of marriage than us, viewed women as objects to be sold and traded and only accepted homosexuality between men, or even more likely, a man and a literal underage boy.

gay rights in greece aren't benefiting some people who died a few thousand years ago or are Literally Fictional. greek queerness isn't just some ancient dionysian fantasy of feeding each other grapes and reciting poetry to each other by the sea. actual greek people who do benefit from this still exist. it doesn't honor some ancient guy who condoned slavery. it honors greek queer people who were out there protesting at the controversy this law raised with the church and actually made the effort to win this fight.

ancient greece isn't the epitome of queerness, not even close. absolutely in no way when it concerned exclusively just gay men. the epitome of queerness is the trans kid from my hometown who insisted on cutting their hair and dressing masculine even within their transphobic high school environment and strict orthodox family, or the woman who taught me programming who was married with children and realized she was aromantic fifteen years into marriage, or the gay punks who kept cops out of the university's anarchist hotspot.

greek queer people aren't history or mythology, and ancient greece isn't the queer utopia you make it out to be. we're still here, and we're fighting against the exact ideas our ancient culture perpetuated.

[toothy-crow]

gay statues from the nereid monument gallery

[kaliarda]

“Gargara News is here for breaking the digital borders between east, west, north and south. Turkey, Greece, Cyprus and beyond! Translations, interviews, news and culture between community to community. We are under the influence of right wing illusions, fake news, main stream channels, binaries, polarisation, homo-nationalism, xenophobia, pink and white washing. Gargara is here for a more healthy communication, some awareness and realization of real borders are in our minds and hearts.

Some Awareness That Gargara Realised:

There is not enough English news from Greece. Turkish alternative queer media is making translations from main-stream channels and spreading an illusion, pink washing. But also in Greece alternative media turns their back to the east. English translations target audience is not the east, nor migrants or refugees. There is a strong orientalism which is shadowing inspirational resistances and similarities between countries. Why people showing American movies in Greece while a real time Stonewall Riot is happening in Turkey? Why between countries translations happening from English news channels? What can we learn from each other? Let's see!

Lots of queer and women paying the prices of wars, authoritarian regimes, poverty and natural disasters. Every summer fires, every spring floods and always a possibility of earthquakes. There is a lot of migrant from all over the world, also a very big queer community left the Istanbul and spread all around the world. Gargara is migrant and hopes this will create a butterfly effect for a new world; a queer renaissance. Because migration is not just a victim identity, it is also broadening your perspective. Let's start seeing migrants as creative subjects.

In both countries media is under attack and a reality is a struggle. In this struggle Gargara's point of view will be transfeminist, anti colonialist, anti homo-nationalist, anti xenophobic, anti militarist, peaceful yet proud with culture and diversity.

* For now it is a voluntary part-time project. For helping, collaborations or to be part of DM ! You can also reach to share news. Language will be just in English for now. And some mistakes can happen 🧿”

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[k-wame]

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[thewhisperofzagreus]

Oh, Hermaphroditus, a Holy One.

1. Hermaphroditus statue from Imperial Rome, around 70-100 AD, at "Lady Lever Art Gallery" in Europe England 2. Hermaphroditus statue from Imperial Rome in the 2nd century AD, at "Louvre" in Paris, Europe France

[tragediambulante]

Sleeping Hermaphroditus, II century D.C

[manichewitz]

why is it that 90% of criticism of the song of achilles just boils down to not accepting the conventions of romance as a genre and wanting it to simply be a different book than what it is? because seriously if you can’t get with the fact that the song of achilles is a queer romance story first and a retelling of the iliad second you’re never gonna make a criticism of it that’s interesting to me. if i wanted to read a book that was accurate to the source material then i would just read the iliad. if i wanted to read a queer romance unfolding on the backdrop of a mythical war i would read the song of achilles. if you dont understand the difference between those two things then your beef with that book is just a waste of time to me

[maranull]

took a couple screenshots from queering the map. focused on greece. i'm sharing.

g'night