Last year, Albatros (their artistic name) published 'Faulty Boy', a book describing the challenges that gender queer children face in Greece, a largely conservative country where the influential Orthodox Church teaches that being gay is a sin. The worst thing is that she said this to actually comfort me,' Albatros said. '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'. Greece this month banned so-called conversion therapy for minors, which has been condemned as psychologically harmful and unethical.ĪTHENS, May 31 (Reuters) - Raised in rural Greece, queer artist and author Sam Albatros recalls how their mother tried to console them about the bullying at school.
