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CAPTION: Hundreds of people took to the streets of Athens, Greece on Saturday for a Gay Pride parade. Many participants said that they felt the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community was still struggling for acceptance in this conservative country. (June 4)
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Hundreds of people took to the streets of central Athens on Saturday for a colourful Gay Pride parade.
Holding rainbow flags and dancing to the beat of drums they walked past the Greek parliament building.
Police tried to stop the march twice, but it was later allowed to proceed without incident.
Many of those attending the march said that they felt the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) community was still struggling for acceptance in this conservative Mediterranean country.
"It's hard. And this happens daily in our places of work or anywhere else you might be where there's verbal abuse which isn't premeditated, it's just the mentality," said one lesbian.
Gay man Fontas said that he felt Greece was behind other counties when it came to acceptance of homosexuality.
"I believe there is a long road ahead, especially compared to other countries," he said.
There is an ongoing stigma against homosexuality in Greece and gay marriages are not allowed, although three years ago a lesbian organisation said it has discovered a loophole in a law that would allow same-sex marriages.
The group said a 1982 law legalising civil weddings refers only to "persons" participating in the ceremony, without specifying gender.
Two couples - one male, one female - were married by the mayor of a small Aegean Sea island, but the weddings were later annulled.
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