Greece tries to make up lost ground on LGBTQ+ rights

Queer novelist and artist Sam Albatros holds a light as they perform during "The Queer Archive Festival" in Athens, Greece, May 12, 2022. REUTERS/Costas Baltas

ATHENS (Reuters) - Raised in rural Greece, queer artist and author Sam Albatros recalls how their mother tried to console them about the bullying at school.

"My mom said: 'Don't worry, when you grow up you are going to marry a woman, you are going to have kids and you will show them'... The worst thing is that she said this to actually comfort me," Albatros said.