Film Screening of AKOE – AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (2023)

In 1977, a proposed law on sexually transmitted diseases prompted a group of friends to establish the Greek Homosexual Liberation Movement (AKOE). The organization, together with its magazine AMFI, soon became a vital hub for meeting, organizing, sharing information, and building solidarity within Greece’s then largely invisible and unorganized LGBTQIA+ community.

This event, co-sponsored by the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Program in Hellenistic Studies, and Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, will screen Iosif Vardakis’ film AKOE – AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (2023) and confront historical state repression, social exclusion, and the AIDS epidemic.