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” I didn’t wake up one morning and said I will kill a man”

Christos Roussos / I killed my boyfriend

The Outsiders / I Killed my Boyfriend / Christos

On April 7, 1976, Greece was shocked by an unprecedented crime for the Greek society. 20-year-old Christos Roussos committed the crime of homicide against his beloved Anestis Papadopoulos because he demanded that he dress as a transvestite and go out to Syngrou street. Conservative post-colonial society is shocked by sexual crime and revelations about the unknown world of gays and transvestites. Six months later, in October 1976, he was summarily sentenced by the Permanent Maritime Court of Piraeus to life imprisonment. His story marked the history of gay rights in Greece with demonstrations in the Propylaia and transvestites giving speeches in theaters and squares for the first time. He begins a struggle to achieve his release, he goes on a hunger strike, but the president of the Republic then, Christos Sartzetakis, rejects the request for a review of the first trial. The case develops into a political thriller, which risks ending in the resignation of the president of the Republic and the fall of the government of Andreas Papandreou. The pardon comes from the next president of the Republic, Konstantinos Karamanlis. His case became the film “Angelos”, the first Greek film to deal with the issue of homosexuality in Greece

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