Today is the 4th-yes only #4- Gay Pride of Athens. It started as a joke, but year by year it manages to grow and to get better organized. The first year we were nearly 300 people in general, on the Klafthmonos Square, some stands and a small stage for the DJ and the poor transsexual who tried to add some camp in the whole event, who looked more like a protest than a pride or parade.

athens pride 2008

The second year it was more crowded, a bigger stage, better organized, supported by more people, the drag show was more of show than the first poor effort.

The third year finally music was added while we were making the small march from Klafthmonos to Syntagma square while the whole day had been livened up with different acts, showing that we are not protesting we are actually celebrating our rights.

Now I am leaving home to be there at the fourth and I hope to see familiar faces. I know that most of my friends are snobbish about any movement like this, they find it pathetic and kitsch, and they are mostly right, but on the other hand it’s a celebration of difference, so we must learn to accept the rest of the world if we want the rest of the world to accept us.

And I don’t want to be accepted only because I may look straight, I want to be accepted even if I am the queeniest boy in the world, and even if the heteronormatinity that rules us, makes us laugh at guys that are more gay than us, we must learn to accept them.

So i have to go for now there is a revolution happening