[Greek Audio]
Growing up in a conservative environment, Alkis realizes that he is attracted to boys. He is forced to live a “double life” and in 2019, he is the victim of a homophobic attack.
Narrator: The narrator has asked to be pseudonymized
Researcher: Anna Palamida
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: Nikolas Konstantinou
Sound Editing: Thanos Zamboukas
Photo highlights: Nikos Mandilas
Music: William Ryan Fritc
Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time.
It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and Empower Youth (see more on www.snf.org). More than 20,000 stories are gradually being published in full on www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos, or written stories on www.istorima.org.