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Greek same-sex wedding bill allows couples to dream, at last

Greek same-sex wedding bill allows couples to dream, at last

WHEN Yolanda Kalantzi and Georgia Ampatzidou fell in love eight years ago, they said the idea of getting married was "science fiction" in deeply conservative Greece, where LGBT+ couples cannot wed or adopt. Now they have a tentative wedding date for spring, tease each other about their ballooning guest list, and are already considering outfits and flowers. The conservative government plans to submit a bill to parliament on Thursday that legalises same-sex civil marriage. The legislation is expected to pass given Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' centre-right party majority, and likely support from leftist lawmakers. If it does, it will make…
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