<![CDATA[www.GAYTHESSALONIKI.com - BLOG]]>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:05:35 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[GIANNIS MPOUTARIS - NEW MAYOR OF THESSALONIKI "SCREW" INTERVIEW]]>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:03:18 -0800http://www.gaythessaloniki.com/1/post/2011/02/giannis-mpoutaris-screw-interview.html
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You said that if a pair of same-sex come to City Hall to marry you will do it. course Tilos marriages were cancelled and the matter has taken the path of justice. Nevertheless, would you do it ? 
  
I'll do something better. I will work with other mayors on the family law of the country, part of which is civil marriage, to acquire the characteristics of modern European countries which we have to include. 

What do you think the marriages of persons of the same sex ?

I believe that if two adults, regardless of sex, they want to formalize their relationship with marriage, if they wish to pay in relation to this matter, then you should also can benefit from the provisions of family law. 

It is believed that persons of the same sex should be able to adopt children; 

United States of America is a society more conservative than our own, why don't we ?

Would you go to a gay bar; 
  
I go wherever  I want and I go almost everywhere.

Do you support a gay parade in the city; A celebration of gay people; 
  
If a gay parade in New York, Berlin, Paris, London, all cities say that our citizens want to visit the vibrancy, dynamism, their light spirit, why not be in Thessaloniki ? 

Have gay friends; Make friends with gay; You talk about their problems; 

Of course I have gay friends. I understand why the diversity inherent in a point and then I gave up the "right" way and I met and the joyed the difficulties of this option. 
]]><![CDATA[Ahmet Yildiz is MY FAMILY]]>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:37:58 -0800http://www.gaythessaloniki.com/1/post/2009/09/post-title-click-and-type-to-edit12.htmlAhmet Yildiz 1979-2009
What happened...
It was five month ago when Ahmet Yildiz told Turkish prosecutors that he had received death threats from members of his family. The prosecutor’s office declined to pursue the case and now Ahmet’s friends claim his family is responsible for his murder.
He was gunned-down outside a café Wednesday, July 16th near the Bosphorus strait. After coming out to his family last year, Ahmet’s friends say he endured increasingly dangerous threats from them. He was a physics student and travelled to San Francisco to represent Turkey at an LGBT rights conference in 2007.
Some friends of Ahmet Yildiz are calling this homophobic murder an ‘honour killing’ in reference to their belief that his family is responsible and the fact that his family refused to remove his body from the morgue for an unusually long time.
The LGBT and Bear Community worldwide wants to pay homage to Ahmet Yildiz as a reminder of all the people that suffer discrimination in the world based on their sexual orientation, and to ask to all governments in the world to fight against hate crimes.

www.ahmetyildizismyfamily.blogspot.com
]]><![CDATA[Sean Penn Oscar Speech \"Thank you. Thank you. You commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns !"]]>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:56:23 -0800http://www.gaythessaloniki.com/1/post/2009/03/sean-penn.html
]]><![CDATA[SEAN PENN GOES FOR THE OSCAR !]]>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:40:03 -0800http://www.gaythessaloniki.com/1/post/2008/12/sean-penn-goes-for-the-oscar.html

Holllywood actor Sean Penn will be honoured at January's Palm Springs International Film Festival for his role in new film Milk.Milk is a biopic about the life of gay American politician Harvey Milk.

Penn, who is also tipped for an Oscar for his portrayal of the titular character, will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award. Past recipients of this award include John Travolta and Daniel Day-Lewis.

Harvey Milk was probably the first out gay male politician in American history.

Known during his lifetime as The Mayor of Castro Street, he is a political icon among gay activists for his ability to build the LGBT community into a grassroots political force.Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.

In his 11 months in office he sponsored a gay rights bill and helped to defeat a proposition that would have seen openly gay and lesbian teachers sacked.

He was gunned down at City Hall by Dan White, a disgruntled former Supervisor, on November 27th 1978.

]]><![CDATA[66 COUNTRIES DEMAND DEPANALYSATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY]]>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:43:19 -0800http://www.gaythessaloniki.com/1/post/2008/12/66-countries-demand-depanalysation-of-homosexuality.html

66 COUNTRIES DEMANDS FROM UN THE DEPENALISATION OF   HOMOSEXUALITY. A PROPOSAL IN THAT OBJECTS THE GOVERNMENTS OF MORE ARABIC NATIONS AND VATICAN. THE PROPOSAL WILL BE SUBMITTED IN THE NEXT SESSION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF UN, OR THAT IS CONSTITUTED BY 192 STATES, BY THE AMBASSADOR OF ARGENTINA  CHORCHE ARGKOYELO. HE  REPRESENTS THE 66 COUNTRIES. THE RESORT IS BASED ON THE BEGINNING OF UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS OR THAT IS GUARANTEED IN THE OECUMENICAL STATEMENT FOR THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS AND THIS YEAR IS SUPPLEMENTED 60 YEAR BY HER PENSION. IN HER FIRST ARTICLE IT IS STRESSED THAT “ ALL PERSONS ARE GIVEN BIRTH FREE AND HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS IN THE DIGNITY AND THE RIGHTS”.

]]><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger Supports GAY Marriage !!!]]>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:13:26 -0800http://www.gaythessaloniki.com/1/post/2008/11/arnold-schwarzenegger-supports-gay-marriage.html

The Governor of California has said that a statewide ballot measure to ban gay marriage that passed last week is not the end of the matter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger voted against Proposition 8.With 100% of votes at polling stations counted, 5,424,916 (52.4%) voted in favour of a constitutional definition of marriage being between a man and woman. 4,832,086 (47.6%) voted against.More than 2m postal and absentee votes have yet to be counted. However, the campaign to stop Prop 8 has conceded defeat.

In an interview with CNN, the Governor said:

"It's unfortunate, obviously, but it's not the end. I think that we will again maybe undo that, if the court is willing to do that, and then move forward from there and again lead in that area."

There were large protest across California over the weekend. Some targeted Mormon and Catholic churches - both denominations donated funds to the Prop 8 campaign.

In May the state Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have the right to eqaul protection and could legally marry. Between June 17th election day on November 4th, more than 18,000 couples got married and it is thought they are still legally wed.

Last week the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Centre for Lesbian Rights filed a writ petition before the California Supreme Court urging the court to invalidate Proposition 8.

Να συνεχίσουν τον αγώνα τους κάλεσε όσους τάσσονται υπέρ των γάμων ομοφυλοφίλων ο κυβερνήτης της Καλιφόρνια, Άρνολντ Σβαρτσενέγκερ.Εξέφρασε, μάλιστα, την ελπίδα ότι τα πολιτειακά δικαστήρια θα παρέμβουν και θα ανατρέψουν την απαγόρευση των γάμων αυτών.

Σε δημοψήφισμα που διεξήχθη την περασμένη Τρίτη, ταυτόχρονα με τις προεδρικές εκλογές, το 52% των ψηφοφόρων της Καλιφόρνιας τάχθηκε υπέρ της απαγόρευσης των γάμων ομοφυλοφίλων. Ωστόσο, αμέσως μετά κατατέθηκαν τρεις αγωγές που υποστηρίζουν ότι η απαγόρευση είναι αντισυνταγματική γιατί με τον τρόπο αυτό γίνονται διακρίσεις σε βάρος των ομοφυλοφίλων. Την Κυριακή εκατοντάδες άνθρωποι διαδήλωσαν έξω από εκκλησίες που είχαν υποστηρίξει την απαγόρευση των γάμων.

«Είναι κρίμα, αλλά δεν είναι το τέλος», δήλωσε ο Σβαρτσενέγκερ σε συνέντευξη που παραχώρησε στο τηλεοπτικό δίκτυο CNN. «Πιστεύω ότι ίσως θα μπορέσουμε ξανά να το ανατρέψουμε, εάν το δικαστήριο διατίθεται να το κάνει, και κατόπιν να προχωρήσουμε εμπρός», πρόσθεσε. Προέβλεψε επίσης ότι δεν θα ακυρωθούν οι γάμοι των 18.000 ζευγαριών, ανδρών και γυναικών, που έχουν ήδη παντρευτεί.

Οι δηλώσεις αυτές είναι οι πιο σαφείς που έχει κάνει μέχρι τώρα ο κυβερνήτης της Καλιφόρνιας για το θέμα αυτό. Στο παρελθόν είχε απορρίψει το νόμο που ενέκρινε τους γάμους μεταξύ ατόμων του ίδιου φύλου λέγοντας ότι πιστεύει πως ο γάμος αφορά μόνο την ένωση μεταξύ ενός άνδρα και μιας γυναίκας. Ταυτόχρονα όμως είχε πει ότι δεν θα τον ενοχλούσε η νομιμοποίηση αυτών των γάμων.




]]><![CDATA[APPLE - GOOGLE AND CALIFORNIA'S FIRST LADY BACKS GAY MARRIAGE ! - Η ΠΡΩΤΗ ΚΥΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΚΑΛΙΦΟΡΝΙΑ ΥΠΟΣΤΗΡΙΖΕΙ ΤΟΥ GAY ΓΑΜΟΥΣ !]]>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:27:51 -0800http://www.gaythessaloniki.com/1/post/2008/10/applegoogle-and-californias-first-lady-backs-gay-marriagegay.htmlMaria Shriver, the wife of Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, has publicly expressed her support for same-sex marriage in the state.

A ballot measure on election day, November 4th, seeks to ban gay and lesbians from getting married. Proposition 8 has the support of church groups in California and many Republican politicians.

"I believe in people's right to choose a partner that they love, and that's a decision that I have come to, and I have felt that way for a long time," said Ms Shriver, a niece of former President John F Kennedy. Her husband has also publicly opposed Proposition 8.

Computer giant Apple has declared Prop 8 a civil rights issue and donated $100,000 to the campaign to defeat it. Google has also publicly backed gay marriage.

"We strongly believe that a person's fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual orientation," Apple said in a statement.

Last week a Public Policy Institute of California found Proposition 8 losing 52% to 44% among likely voters. 4% are undecided. In polls taken in August and September by the institute found double digit leads for opponents of the measure.

Proposition 8 would amend the state Constitution to "eliminate right of same-sex couples to marry."In May the California Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriages in the state.

The Court voted 4 to 3 to strike down the ban. Opponents of gay marriage raised more than a million signatures to place the initiative on the November ballot.

]]><![CDATA[Τροπολογία των βουλευτών του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ στο σ/ν για το οικογενειακό δίκαιο - Amendment of deputies of SYRIZA in the law for the familial rights ]]>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:21:23 -0800http://www.gaythessaloniki.com/1/post/2008/10/amendment-of-deputies-of-syriza-in-the-law-for-the-familial-rights.htmlΟι βουλευτές του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ Θ. Δρίτσας, Φ. Κουβέλης και Ν. Τσούκαλης, κατέθεσαν σήμερα τροπολογία επι του σχεδίου νόμου «μεταρρυθμίσεις για την οικογένεια, το παιδί, την κοινωνία και άλλες διατάξεις. Θεωρώντας ότι ο αποκλεισμός των ομόφυλων ζευγαριών από το Σύμφωνο ελεύθερης Συμβίωσης που προωθεί η κυβέρνηση αποτελεί κατάφωρη παραβίαση της αρχής της ισότητας, καλούν όλους τους βουλευτές ανεξαρτήτως πολιτικού χώρου να πάρουν θέση προκειμένου για την εξάλειψη της διάκρισης.

The deputies of SYRIZA Th. Dritsas, F. Koybelis and N. Tsoykalis, deposited today amendment on the drawing of law “reforms on the family, the child, the society and other provisions. Considering that the exclusion of homosexual pairs from the Pact of free Living together that it promotes the government constitutes blatant violation of beginning of equality, they independent call the all deputies of political space to take place with regard to the obliteration of discrimination.

]]><![CDATA[''SCREW'' NEW FREE GAY PRESS IN THESSALONIKI]]>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:32:36 -0800http://www.gaythessaloniki.com/1/post/2008/10/screw.htmlΈνα νέο γκέι free press περιοδικό εκδόθηκε αυτό το μήνα στη Θεσσαλονίκη, το Screw, «μια μηνιαία εφημερίδα ενάντια στην ομοιομορφία», όπως συστήνεται στο θεσσαλονικώτικο κοινό. Το οραματίστηκαν και το έφεραν σε πέρας ο Άρης Μπατσιούλας, εκ των πρωτεργατών του θρυλικού ΠΟΘΟΥ, ο Γιώργος Τσιτιρίδης και ο Νίκος Θεοδώρου. Τον μαχητικό, περιπαικτικό και σέξι τίτλο συμπληρώνει το εξίσου περιπαικτικό μότο: «because fags can read». Κι αυτό τα λέει όλα: το Screw «θα προσπαθήσει να λειτουργήσει με διάθεση περισσότερο διαχρονική, παρά ευκαιριακή, προσφέροντας στο κοινό όχι μόνο του σήμερα, αλλά και του αύριο, στα πρότυπα αγαπημένων εντύπων του παρελθόντος, όπως λ.χ. ο Πόθος ή το Κράξιμο», γράφουν στο πρώτο τεύχος οι τρεις συνεργάτες. Το Screw συνδυάζει το ακτιβιστικό μέρος, «που», όπως σημειώνουν οι τρεις, «απαιτείται σε κάθε σοβαρό ομοφυλοφιλικό έντυπο», με την ψυχαγωγία και την ενημέρωση για τη σκηνή της Θεσσαλονίκης.

Αυτό μεταφράζεται στις τυπωμένες σελίδες του Screw ως εξής: ειδήσεις από την Ελλάδα και τον κόσμο, άρθρα για τον κινηματογράφο και τις θεατρικές παραστάσεις που ανεβαίνουν στη Θεσσαλονίκη, αφιερώματα στην τέχνη και στη νυχτερινή ζωή. Επιπλέον, σε κάθε τεύχος θα υπάρχει το αφιέρωμα του μήνα, με άρθρα, συνεντεύξεις, φωτογραφίες. Ιδιαίτερη έμφαση δίνεται στο διαδραστικό κομμάτι, με σχόλια, γράμματα, και συμμετοχή των αναγνωστών και αναγνωστριών. «Το αγόρι του μήνα» είναι όποιος από τους αναγνώστες θέλει να μοιραστεί με τους αναγνώστες του περιοδικού μια απεικόνιση της ψυχής και του προσώπου του. «Ο ταχυδρόμος» είναι ο χώρος για να γράφουν οι αναγνώστες τις εμπειρίες, τους προβληματισμούς, τις σκέψεις σας, ενώ στο «Πώς γνωριστήκαμε» μπορούν να μιλούν για τις σχέσεις τους, φιλικές ή ερωτικές. Στο «Straight talk» οι στρέιτ φίλοι μιλούν για τους γκέι. Οι λεσβίες έχουν τη δική τους στήλη, το «Lesbian talk».

A new GAY free press magazine was published this month in Thessalonica, Screw, “a monthly newspaper against the uniformity”, as it is recommended in Thessaloniki's public. They envisioned him also him they to an end brought Aris Mpatsioylas, from the ringleaders of legend DESIRE, Giorgos Tsitiridis and Nikos Theodoroy. The fighting, facetious and sexy title it supplements the equally facetious motto: “because fags can read”. And this him it says all: Screw “will try it functions with disposal more diachronic, despite occasional, offering in his public not only today, but also tomorrow, in model beloved forms of past. the Desire or the Croak”, they write in the first copy three collaborators. Screw combines the aktivist part, “that”, as they mark the three, “it is required in each serious homosexual form”, with the entertainment and the briefing on the scene of Thessaloniki. This is translated in the printed pages of Screw as follows: news from Greece and the world, articles on the cinema and the theatrical representations that go up in Thessalonica, hommages in the art and in the nightly life. Moreover, in each copy will exist the hommage of month, with articles, interviews, photographs. Particular accent is given in  comments, letters, and attendance of readers and readers. “The boy of month” is that from the readers wants is shared with the readers of magazine a depiction of soul and his person. “The postman” is the space in order to write the readers the experiences, the reflections, your thoughts, while in “How we were known” they can speak for their relations, friendly or erotic. To “Straight talk” the Straight friends speak for gay. The lesbians have their own column, “Lesbian talk”.

]]><![CDATA[BRAD PITT DONATES 100.000$ TO CAMPAIGN SUPPORTING GAY MARRIAGE]]>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:24:34 -0800http://www.gaythessaloniki.com/1/post/2008/09/brad-pitt-donates-100000-to-campaign-supporting-gay-marriage.html

Hollywood star Brad Pitt has made a large donation to campaign fighting an attempt to ban gay marriage in California. His $100,000 (£54,840) to the campaign against Proposition 8 was announced yesterday. "Because no one has the right to deny another their life even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn’t harm another, and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8," Mr Pitt said in a statement. Proposition 8 is an initiative measure on the 2008 California General Election ballot in November. It would amend the state Constitution to provide that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognised in California," thus constitutionally eliminating the right to same-sex marriage. In May the California Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriages in the state. The Court voted 4 to 3 to strike the ban on gay marriage in California. Opponents of gay marriage raised over one million signatures to place the initiative on the November ballot.

O σταρ του Χόλιγουντ Brad Pitt έχει κάνει μια μεγάλη δωρεά στην εκστρατεία παλεύοντας μια προσπάθεια να απαγορεύσει το γάμο ομοφυλοφίλων σε Καλιφόρνια. $100.000  (£54,840) στην εκστρατεία ενάντια στην πρόταση 8 αναγγέλθηκαν χθες. " Επειδή κανένας δεν έχει το δικαίωμα να αρνηθεί μια άλλη ζωή  ακόμα κι αν διαφωνεί με την, επειδή η καθεμία έχει το δικαίωμα να ζήσει τη ζωή που επιθυμεί  εάν αυτή δεν βλάπτει τη ζωή της άλλης, και επειδή η διάκριση δεν έχει κανένα μέρος στην Αμερική, η ψηφοφορία μου θα είναι για την ισότητα και ενάντια στην πρόταση 8'' είπε ο  κ. Pitt . Η πρόταση 8 είναι ένα μέτρο πρωτοβουλίας σχετικά με τη γενική ψήφο εκλογής Καλιφόρνιας του 2008 το Νοέμβριο. Η πρόταση ''8'' θα τροποποιούσε το κρατικό σύνταγμα για να παρέχει το  " μόνο ο γάμος μεταξύ ενός άνδρα και μιας γυναίκας είναι έγκυρος ή αναγνωρισμένος στην Καλιφόρνια, " και κατά συνέπεια να αποβάλλει  το δικαίωμα στο γάμο ομοφυλοφίλων. Το Μάιο το ανώτατο δικαστήριο Καλιφόρνιας ανέτρεψε μια απαγόρευση στους γάμους ομοφυλοφίλων στο κράτος. Το δικαστήριο ψήφισε 4 υπέρ, εναντίον 3 για να σταματήσει την απαγόρευση στο γάμο ομοφυλοφίλων σε Καλιφόρνια. Οι αντίπαλοι του γάμου ομοφυλοφίλων αύξησαν πάνω από ένα εκατομμύριο υπογραφές για να τοποθετήσουν την πρωτοβουλία στην ψήφο Νοεμβρίου.

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