LGBTQ

Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has made a passionate plea to parliament to approve a bill that would legalise same-sex marriage and adoption. Describing the bill as a “matter of equality”, he said it was not acceptable in a democracy “to have two classes of citizens and certainly not to have children of a lesser god.” Greece’s parliament is expected to vote through the legislation later today (15 February), which would mark a significant victory for the LGBTQ+ community in the south-eastern European nation. On Wednesday (14 February), Maria Syrengela,...