Thessaloniki Pride 2019

8th Thessaloniki Pride 2019 poster

8th Thessaloniki Pride MAKING HISTORY   50 years ago the LGBTI community resisted. In the night of 28 June 1969 people at the gay bar Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted for the first time the systematic police violence against them. This turning point was going to spark the beginning of the LGBTI movement, a global movement that affected … Read More

Call for slogan proposals for the 9th Thessaloniki Pride

The topic For more than a year now our world has been going through a state of pandemic. For more than a year now, and while its effects are being more intense to the most vulnerable groups, we expect the desired “return to normality”, as it is continuously reiterated. But which normality do we want to return to? For most … Read More

EuroPride 2020 postponement

The board of Thessaloniki Pride has taken the difficult decision to postpone EuroPride 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. No new date has been set yet, but the board will continue to monitor the situation over the coming weeks and make a decision on a new date, as soon as it is practical to do so. Thessaloniki Pride continues … Read More

Thessaloniki Pride 2018

7th thessaloniki Pride poster "A Family Thing"

  7th Thessaloniki Pride is dedicated to family.   As a community we fall in love and create relationships of tenderness and affection, while many of us create our own families, which we usually have to keep out of sight in order to protect them. In a society that denies and stigmatizes them, the Greek government fails to vote legislation … Read More

Suggest a slogan for the 7th Thessaloniki Pride

As a community we love and create relationships of love and affection, while many of us create our own families, which we usually have to keep out of sight in order to protect them. In a society that denies and stigmatizes them the greek government fails to vote legislation that protects lgbt families and allows them to live in dignity … Read More

Statement to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court on persecution of homophobic hate speech

The Greek Helsinki Monitor along with the two Greek Pride organiser entities Athens and Thessaloniki Pride issued the following statement regarding the recent developments in the field of justice regarding the combat of homophobic hate speech (in Greek): Διάβημα σε Εισαγγελία Αρείου Πάγου για δίωξη ομοερωτοφοβίας – Άρνηση συνάντησης από Υπουργείο Δικαιοσύνης

Thessaloniki Pride 2017

6th Thessaloniki Pride 14-17 June 2017 COME AS YOU ARE The 6th Thessaloniki Pride is dedicated to our right to identify ourselves the way we feel and our obligation to respect the self-identification of others. With the increasing visibility of the LGBTIQ+ community the society gets more and more familiar with identities relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, expression … Read More

Slogan of the 6th Thessaloniki Pride

We are proud to announce the slogan of the 6th Thessaloniki Pride: COME AS YOU ARE Come as you are without feeling ashamed of your sexual orientation, your gender expression or identiy, your sex characteristics or any other identity you might have. Come as you are to chant this slogan in the streets of Thessaloniki on 17 June ’17. Besides, … Read More