Posted by
InchDeep on Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:16:44 PM
A few interesting paragraphs from a BBC "news" story.
Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an
attempt to stop a gay rights organisation from using the term
"lesbian".
The islanders say that if they are successful they may then start to fight the word lesbian internationally.
The issue boils down to who has the right to call themselves Lesbians.
Is it gay women, or the 100,000 people living on Greece's third biggest
island - plus another 250,000 expatriates who originate from Lesbos?
The man spearheading the case, publisher Dimitris Lambrou,
claims that international dominance of the word in its sexual context
violates the human rights of the islanders, and disgraces them around
the world.
He says it causes daily problems to the social life of Lesbos's inhabitants.
Read the rest. Some day when the Lib's really take over I will become a citizen of Lesbos. It would be cool to walk around San Francisco and be able tell everyone I am a Lesbian. Or when some one yell "Hey Lesbo" I can turn around say "Yes can I help you."