Announcements

Open Letter to the Minister of Education, Sport and Youth of the Republic of Cyprus, Dr. Athena Michailidou Thessaloniki, 31 May 2025 Dear Minister, With this letter, Thessaloniki Pride expresses its deep concern and regret over a serious incident of homotransphobic racist violence, allegedly involving Cypriot school students and accompanying teachers, during their school trip to Thessaloniki. In the early … Read More

Following the case related to the racist transphobic attack against trans individuals, yesterday, Friday, the scheduled trial for the two attacks that occurred on different dates, at Aristotelous Square and along the Macedonia Palace hotel respectively, was to take place at the Single-Member Misdemeanor Court of Thessaloniki.   The trial for both aforementioned cases was postponed to October 31, 2024. … Read More

With this open letter, the undersigned organizations supporting this initiative express our deep concern about the rise of racism and far-right extremism in Europe, which jeopardizes the fundamental principles of the European Union. The spread of nationalism and xenophobia is escalating, while political forces on the far-right fringe unleash inflammatory rhetoric and contravene fundamental rights in public discourse. Antiquated ideas … Read More

We walk freely, proudly, and safely on the streets and in the squares. We are not intimidated.   New transphobic attack in Thessaloniki.   Just a few days after the brutal racist and transphobic attack by more than two hundred young individuals in Thessaloniki, with the horror still not having subsided and the LGBT+ victims having survived by luck, on … Read More

Our anger overflows regarding the transphobic attack that two young trans people received in the center of Thessaloniki, by a mob of young people. Transgender people were verbally attacked unprovoked in Aristotelous Square at 22:30 by around 100 people who bullied, threatened and verbally attacked trans people with incredible anger. There was a verbal confrontation with the transgender people fleeing … Read More

Through the mediation of the Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Greece, Thessaloniki Pride has entered into an agreement with the Social Cooperative Enterprise ForME for the production of the memorabilia for Thessaloniki EuroPride 2024. ForME represents an innovative and alternative cluster structure, which started in 2018 and aims to help women develop their own business as a means of empowerment … Read More

On February 15, 2024, the Greek Parliament’s approval of marriage equality, with cross-party consensus from the entire democratic spectrum, marked a historic day for the LGBTQI+ community as well as for the parliamentary life of our country. As active citizens, Thessaloniki Pride welcomes this move, congratulates, and thanks all individuals and bodies that worked and supported this reform. With the … Read More

February 15th, 2024 marks a historic turning point for the LGBTQI+ movement in both Greece and the entire Southeast Europe, as for the first time, a country in the broader region will institutionalize marriage equality. With this move, hundreds of families that have remained invisible to society and non-existent to the State for so many years are finally legally recognized. … Read More