An illustration depicts two men kissing, symbolizing the union of Crete with Greece. Text highlights the legalization of same-sex marriage in Greece.
On this ATHINAI cover by Roilos, a Cretan soldier and an Evzone kiss to mark the 1911 union of Crete with Greece. Greece has long aestheticised the image of men embracing for flag and homeland; it took more than a century to extend that intimacy beyond allegory and into law.
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