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The story of Alexandros Iolas, Greece's greatest art collector, reads, appropriately, like a Greek tragedy.

Evanggelos Bousis and Peter Dundas, both of Greek descent, became the first gay couple to hold a Greek Orthodox Baptism for their children in Greece on Saturday. The couple's children, Alexios and Eleni, were baptized by his Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros...

Gay and bisexual men can now donate blood in Greece as the Health Ministry lifted the ban Greece imposed beginning in the 1980s during the HIV/Aids epidemic. Health minister Thanos Plevris and deputy Mina Gaga signed a ministerial decree on...

A priest from the suburb of Maroussi in northern Athens allegedly asked a woman to sign an official declaration recently stating that she had never said that she was homosexual. The peculiar incident has gone viral in Greece over the...

An outcry was caused, after a court of Aigio on Friday acquitted Bishop of Aigialeia and Kalavryta, Amvrosios, on the charges of hate speech and incitement to violence against gays. According to PatrasTimes news website reporting from the court, the...

A Greek advert that features a middle age gay couple has become viral in a country which still lags well behind on social acceptance of gay and lesbian couples. The advert; believed to be the first of its kind screened...

The 5th Thessaloniki Pride Parade began shortly after 20:00 (local time) at the White Tower as a group of rainbow-colored participants flowed onto the streets of Ethniki Amynis, Tsimiski and Venizelou streets, passing through Nikis Avenue before reaching the...

Members of the Greek Orthodox Church held an all-night prayer vigil on Thursday, ahead of the Thessaloniki Pride Festival due to take place at the capital of Macedonia from June 24-25. The festival has been denounced by church members...

The Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) has recently announced that the number of HIV infections in 2013 fell for the first time since the financial crisis hit Greece. According to KEELPNO's annual report, published earlier today, the number of new...

ATHENS, (AP) - Gay rights protesters gathered outside Greece's parliament late Friday after the government said it would delay legislation allowing civil unions for same-sex couples. The decision came despite a European court ruling that found Greece has been...