Paper short abstract:

This paper will deal with the ascending demand posed by gay men in Greece for the right to have children and its cultural annotations about what kinship tends to mean, based on the recent public discussion about the expansion of the co-habitation agreement among homosexual citizens in Greece.

Paper long abstract:

Greece, a country whose traditional values seem to be strong, recently faced the challenge of the expansion of the co-habitation agreement among homosexual citizens. Right-wing political parties, conservative citizens and the Church soon were opposed to those who were for the voting of such a bill. At the same time, the legislation of the co-habitation agreement had been a demand heavily expressed by the Greek LGBTQI community through years, one that was finally achieved during December 2015, but still did not totally satisfy its members because of the exclusion of parental rights. It is of great interest though, that besides the fact that parental rights were not included in the bill, the public discussion that took part at a state website before the voting of the bill in the Greek Parliament was centered on the notions of motherhood and fatherhood, based on the terms of "nature" and "choice". Based on those facts, in this paper there will be an anthropological approach in gay fatherhood based on the discourse expressed during the public discussion and on an on-going ethnography among gay men who are or wish to become fathers in Greece. How are gay men perceived when it comes to kinship, how ARTs and the entrance of gay men in kinship change what we consider a family, and, finally, how can we define terms of kinship in an era when bonds tend to be fluid?