#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!

[flaroh]

The Lovers of Akrotiri 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🐦‍⬛🌺🌞

Junes illustration is a sweet scene of two Minoan girlfriends, that plays on the saffron gatherer motif but this time with a stylised lily landscape reminiscent of the “Spring Fresco of Akrotiri”. 🐦‍⬛🌺🌞

Their dresses are based on frescos of women and goddesses from the Minoan city of Akrotiri that was preserved in a volcanic eruption in the 16th century BCE🌋

[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

[galaxies-mesamou]

How are y'all doing? I haven't been active on here in ages. I come back even gayer somehow.

[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

[adams-r1b]

('Achilles Binding Patroclus’ Wounds' c. 500 BCE)

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Pythagoras & Icarus ATLANTIS (TV Series) ‧ 2015 ‧ S2

[kaliarda]

Exarcheia, Athens (via evripidisandhistragedies)

[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! 💙

[zeldahime]

Anacreon, poem 358

I read this poem in Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (Sandra Boehringer, 2007, translated to English by Anna Preger in 2021) in the section on representations of female desire in archaic Greek poetry and went OH MY GOD

[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.

[tragediambulante]

Sleeping Hermaphroditus, II century D.C