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“It’s a big deal, it brings tears to my eyes.” These are the words of Maria Katsikadakou, better known as Maria Cyber, speaking about this year’s edition of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TIDF). Renowned as one of the first lesbian activists on the Greek LGBTQI+ scene, she has served as an adviser for the 2024 festival’s extensive (and timely) celebration of LGBTQI+ documentary cinema, entitled Citizen Queer. To say she’s excited about it would be an understatement. “I feel over-the-top happy, enthusiastic, and excited to be part of it,” says Katsikadakou of her consultan...
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Years before starting a family of her own, Stella Belia, head of the Greek same-sex family support group Rainbow Families, was already waging a tireless campaign for legal recognition. This week, just a few months shy of her twin boys’ 17th birthday, her fight may finally be over. Greek lawmakers are expected to legalise same-sex marriage in a parliament vote on Thursday. Approval would make Greece the first Orthodox Christian country to take that step, clearing multiple legal hurdles for gay couples who already have or want to have children. “I’ve been fighting for this ever since I figured o...
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Greece’s centre-right government is speeding up its timetable to legalise same-sex marriage - despite growing opposition from the powerful Orthodox Church. Government officials said the draft legislation would be put to a vote by mid-February. Greece would become the first Orthodox-majority country to legalise same-sex marriage if the law passes. The Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, which heads Orthodox churches around the world, has expressed its opposition to the same-sex marriage proposal. “Marriage is the union of man and woman under Christ… and the church does not accept the cohabitat...
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s plans to legalise same-sex marriage in the country and allow adoption for LGBTQ+ couples obtained the crucial backing of the left-wing opposition on Thursday. Stefanos Kasselakis, the openly gay ex banker leading the radical left party Syriza, said that he would instruct his 38 lawmakers to vote for the proposal, even though he criticised the measure for not going far enough on parenthood rights. Kasselakis, who married his husband in New York in October 2023, has expressed the desire to have children through a surrogate mother—a practice which has re...
Euronews (English)
By Ritika Jain The Centre on Wednesday took a diversion from their declared view and told the Supreme Court that the government is agreeable to forming a committee which would examine if certain legal rights can be granted to couples from the LGBTQIA+ community without giving them the legal recognition of “marriage”. “The government is positive. What we have decided is that this would need coordination between more than one ministry. So therefore, a committee headed by no less than the cabinet secretary will be constituted,” Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said. “Suppose the government says tha...
BOOM Live
By Mohammed Kudrati The Bar Council of India (BCI) passed a resolution on April 23, 2023, requesting the Supreme Court to leave the issue of marriage equality to the legislative process and claimed that over 99.9% of Indians are opposed to the idea. BOOM found that while surveys and polls done on the issue of marriage equality show varying results, none of them come remotely close to the 99.9% figure cited by the BCI. These publicly available survey results show opposition to marriage equality to be as high as 62%, with another one showing support being as high as 53% among Gen Z (those betwee...
BOOM Live
By Ritika Jain Centre told the Supreme Court that though the government cannot regulate social personal relationships, it could intervene and regulate "certain relationships" if it was in the legitimate interest. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, also expressed apprehension that if one allowed marriage equality and legitimised what is considered to be "forbidden relationships", then at some point in the future the same arguments could be made to allow incest or polygamy. Today, on day six of the hearing on Marriage Equality, the top court engaged in a back-and-forth disc...
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By Riddhi Dastidar Last week hearings began in the Supreme Court on what has largely been called the ‘same sex marriage’ petition by newsrooms and the general public in India. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud began hearing the 20 listed petitions on Tuesday, 18 April. The Union government has stated its opposition, saying in an affidavit that such unions would create ‘complete havoc’ in the country. It has argued that this demand is an ‘urban elitist concept’, and that marriage is ‘not a fundamental right’, and further contended that the quest...
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By Ritika Jain Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that at this stage it could “steer clear of personal laws” and focus on interpretation of the Special Marriage Act to open doors for same-sex marriage. On day 1 of the hearing on pleas seeking recognition of same sex marriage, the five-judge Constitution Bench acknowledged that if the arguments touched on the Hindu Marriage Act, then it opened a pandora’s box for contentions in all personal laws. There is “sage wisdom” in going about the “interpretive task” in an “incremental manner”, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud observed. Supreme Court...
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By Ritika Jain Supreme Court today will begin hearing pleas seeking recognition of same-sex marriages. However, before it begins deliberation and frames issues of law that will define the scope of arguments, the Supreme Court must decide on the Centre’s plea challenging the maintainability of the pleas. The pleas—which were transferred to the Supreme Court from different high courts—have drawn sharp reactions from different sections of society. While there are a few who want to welcome this socio-legal move, there are those who feel same-sex marriages would destroy the fabric of society. The I...
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