The last time I tried to write to AKOE, they had moved and given no forwarding address. Although the laws themselves as they affect homosexuals are not oppressive, in practice life is not so free. Basically, one keeps one's masculine honor at the expense of another. This makes him the object of derision. This is changing though with more contact with people from the U.S. and western Europe.
Police regularly go into bars and harass patrons.
This happend to me once, the alleged crime was that a man had taken another man from that bar up to the forest on Lycavitos hill and robbed and killed him. It later turned out that there was a man beat up on the hill, he was an English tourist, his assailant was from Ghana, the man was injured, but not killed. One of the people in our group was outspoken and urged everyone to report this action, as it was unconstitutional and illegal, but nobody would - I because it could get me deported, the Brazillian because it could cost him his job, and the other Greeks because the police would likely contact their families and employers. Many men I met in the bars there, especially those from rural areas, were constantly on edge at the thought of being reported. Some of this fear was from earlier days when a man caught in a gay situation would have that on his record, and printed on his government ID card which one has to use all the time.