The Mass Effect trilogy was the first experience I had with LGBTQ characters in a video game since my grandma bought me a Gameboy in 1990. It felt too big to laugh at.That was 2012. As it began, though, it hit me that I was watching an actual lesbian sex scene in a video game, between two characters I had grown to care about over a long period, whose relationship felt important to me. I thought it would be a scene I cringed through, a cynical product of my calculated romance option selections set deep in the Uncanny Valley. The filmmakers also noted in their manifesto that the “Parthenon is a beautiful place for somebody to make love, don’t forget the view (we took care to be away from the cement path during our best moments).I joked about the lesbian sex scene in Mass Effect 3 to anyone who would listen at the time, whooped about it as if it was the novelty porn my flatmates and I had watched in our first shared apartment. UNESCO describes the site as “the most striking and complete ancient Greek monumental complex still existing in our times” and as “universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex bequeathed by Greek Antiquity to the world.” The Acropolis and its monuments are Greece’s most visited landmark. “A fissure is created in the public space, and specifically at the archaeological site of the Parthenon, which is symbolically charged with nationalistic and heteronormative elements, so that the saught eroticism can flourish.” The company decides to mediate so that they find all these and creates a context of sensuality and transcendence.” About their erotic adventures and that they no longer have the courage and the eroticism which they once had.
The filmmakers have described the plot of the film, saying, “The story involves two men who after some hiking with their company, they narrate to them about their past as an ex-couple. The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has yet to release a statement on the controversy. Meanwhile, the union, which represent s guards of Greek museums and archaeological sites, stated its “outrage and shame,” calling the film “vile.” “ No one can use the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis for so-called activist actions and revolutionary acts, which are in fact both stupid and immoral,” Bibilas told Greek television network ANT1. In fact, I don ’ t consider this to be activism… As a Greek, I feel ashamed.” The president of the Greek Actors ‘ Association, Spyros Bibilas, said, “ You can’t do anything you want in the name of activism. The film can be found on Facebook and Twitter, and can be streamed for free. We do not see anything strange or unnatural in what we do.” It is more about the desire and need to live in the way that we want. It is for many a budge of nationalism, worshipping of antiquity, patriarchy, commercialization, mass culture and social appropriateness among others,” the filmmakers said and added, “It would be wrong… if somebody believed that the main goal of this film is reaction. “ The choice of the Parthenon as a place is not a random one. We will be living eros and sexuality just as we wish and we will be defending the public existence and coexistence of all sexualities that do not violate the self-determination of our bodies.” “Let this small gesture be a voice saying that nobody is alone. In a statement, the filmmakers said, “ Some of us face physical and verbal violence because of our choices and expressions on sexuality, while we know that other people are killed or imprisoned as well because they have what is called by some as abnormal sexuality.” Advertisement‘Defending the Public Existence and Coexistence of All Sexualities’