Grigoris Vallianatos

Grigoris Vallianatos

Birthday: 1956-06-04

Place of Birth: Plaka, Greece

Biography: He was born in 1956 in Plaka, Athens, originally from Vallianata, Kefalonia. He studied Political Science. He has worked as a journalist and as a communications consultant. During his studies in London he worked as a gentleman's attendant. He has declared that he is gay, HIV-positive and an atheist. On April 11, 2005, he suffered a beating, in Kolonaki square, by the criminologist Alexis Kougia, due to an earlier dispute between them, due to statements made by Grigoris Vallianatos against Alexis Kougia on a television show. In 2001, he participated in the film Pink at Full Speed ​​and in 2005 in the film Homer. In 2008, the book Inappropriate was published by Kastaniotis publications. It stands for the individual liberties of LGBT+ people, immigrants and refugees, substance abusers, sex workers, Jews, women, ethnic minorities, the disabled, the imprisoned and the homeless.

Movies

Tilos Weddings
Tilos Weddings

In the year 2008, the mayor of the island of Tilos in the Aegean Sea agreed to perform the first gay...

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AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…)
AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…)

Greece, 1977. A proposed law brings gay men and “transvestites” together in a historic event and spa...

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Full Pink Ahead
Full Pink Ahead

A muck raker journalist tries to trap the Education Minister, why is rumored to be gay, but he perce...

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Hostage
Hostage

Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitiv...

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Angel
Angel

Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather h...

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Greeks (Greek Love and Sapphic Sophistication)
Greeks (Greek Love and Sapphic Sophistication)

A look at “Greek love” and the reality of homosexuality in Greece in 1991. Leaders of the once-calle...

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