Wedding photos flooded his social media August Cortoof Anastasios Samouilidis and the couple’s friends. Following the legalization of same-sex marriage, the author married his partner of many years at the Athens City Hall, in the presence of their friends and of course their dog, Jerry. The event was also published on Washington Postwriting that it is the first homosexual pair of who married in town hall Athens.
As he described the experience himself Cortoaccompanying the text with a photo showing his wedding ring:
«And now that the heartbeat has stopped a little…
“What has changed, besides the celebration, the joy, the love of the people of my heart – and this little sparkle in my hand?
“While the ceremony was going on, while I was kissing and hugging my husband, a sixteen-year-old boy was standing among the friends, almost invisible.
“While the ceremony was going on, while I was kissing and hugging my husband, a sixteen-year-old boy was standing among the friends, almost invisible.”
“He looked at me with astonishment, disbelief, and greedy longing. I think of him often, but the young man had never dared to dream of me.
“Nobody listened to me when I told him to come closer, and get comfortable – after all, for so many years, he’s been living inside me.
“Lightly shaded boy, whom Gatsos also called, Petri of forgotten loneliness, we succeeded.
“Our life was reserved for Taso».
While in another, earlier post, with a blurry photo of the newly married couple, he comments: “My wedding ring and my heart write your name».
The couple’s lawyer also made a post Vassilis Sotiropouloswho commented:
«Statement on the occasion of today’s Wedding in the Municipality of Athens.
»There are those rare moments in the centuries when the walls they open, the barred gates of castles are raised, the chains give way, and the locks are unlocked to welcome those who had been left out. Moments that even mountains move.
“With these thoughts I came to the town hall of the Municipality of Athens, in order to participate as a witness in the first marriage regardless of gender that took place today, uniting two dear friends who have been happy together for twenty consecutive years.
“With the enactment of marriage equality legislation, a historical period formation of new cultural rearrangements. Access to marriage for a social group that was excluded for centuries takes the institution to new dimensions. We are living in the moment when the strict and irresistible structures of tradition give way and bow before man. We pass over irrational prejudices that shatter like a potter’s vessel. It is the human value that condemns the unshakable belief that nothing changes. Everything can change and everything changes, this is now also the content of my own testimony in the relevant registry act.
“We are living in the occasion when the strict and irresistible structures of tradition give way and bow before man.”
“The most interesting thing of all is how access to marriage will evolve. In other words, beyond the legal part, the interest is now focused on the ways, sounds, sounds, verses, scales, tonality, grammar and syntax that will give meaning to marriage from now on. We have almost unwritten map in front of us.
“A huge cultural deposit awaiting its mining».
See posts from August Corto’s wedding:
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