(4 Jun 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Low angle shot under massive rainbow pride flag being held by gay parade participants
2. Close-up people holding flag
3. Close-up of drums being played
4. Drummers performing during gay march
5. Close-up drummers marching and playing
6. Wide of march with rainbow flag in foreground
7. People marching with Parliament in background
8. Wide of gay march
9. Mid of participants of march
10. March going past Parliament
11. Various of people dancing and marching
12. Close-up of t-shirts with message reading (English) "Human rights are my pride"
13. Demonstrator shouting (English) "What's my pride?" and others replying (English) "Human rights"
14. Police with helmets blocking march
15. Close-up demonstrators passing police vehicle
16. Demonstrators lifting police cordon and continuing march
17. Close-up women with sign reading (English) "Athens Pride"
18. Wide of people singing on stage
19. Close-up of badge on shirt reading (English) "Kiss me everywhere - Athens Pride 2011"
20. Irene, right, kissing and embracing friend
21. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Irene, no last name given:
"It's hard. And this happens daily in our places of work or anywhere else you might be where there's verbal abuse which isn't premeditated, it's just the mentality."
22. Tilt down from people to dog wearing pink ribbon
23. Close-up of sign reading (English) "Stop AIDS"
24. Women watching rally
25. Close-up of sign reading (Greek) "Lesbian and gay weddings NOW!"
26. Men talking
27. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Fontas, no last name given:
"I believe there is a long road ahead, especially compared to other countries, definitely."
28. Woman with child at rally
29. Wide of rally
30. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Iro, no last name given:
"There is a lot of support and now people are finally coming out of the closet and this is good. And there are more floats, more people."
31. Woman filming rally
32. People watching performance on stage
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people took to the streets of central Athens on Saturday for a colourful Gay Pride parade.
Holding rainbow flags and dancing to the beat of drums they walked past the Greek parliament building.
Police tried to stop the march twice, but it was later allowed to proceed without incident.
Many of those attending the march said that they felt the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) community was still struggling for acceptance in this conservative Mediterranean country.
"It's hard. And this happens daily in our places of work or anywhere else you might be where there's verbal abuse which isn't premeditated, it's just the mentality," said one lesbian.
Gay man Fontas said that he felt Greece was behind other counties when it came to acceptance of homosexuality.
"I believe there is a long road ahead, especially compared to other countries," he said.
There is an ongoing stigma against homosexuality in Greece and gay marriages are not allowed, although three years ago a lesbian organisation said it has discovered a loophole in a law that would allow same-sex marriages.
The group said a 1982 law legalising civil weddings refers only to "persons" participating in the ceremony, without specifying gender.
Two couples - one male, one female - were married by the mayor of a small Aegean Sea island, but the weddings were later annulled.
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