Betty Vakalidou

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Betty Vakalidou

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Betty Vakalidou

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AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…)
1h 11m
Movie 2023

AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…)

Greece, 1977. A proposed law brings gay men and “transvestites”...

Strella
1h 51m
Movie 2009

Strella

Yiorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration...

Biography

Elisavet Vakalidou (known as Betty) [Ελισάβετ (Μπέττυ) Βακαλίδου, 1950] is a Greek transsexual, one of the best-known transgender people in Greece, who publicly displayed her identity and fought for the rights of homosexuals and transgender people. She participated in the founding of the first Greek homosexual movement in Greece, A.K.O.E. (Gay Liberation Movement of Greece), has written two autobiographical books and has appeared in theater and cinema. She was also nominated as "Person of the Year" (2007) during the "European Year of Equal Opportunities for All".