Lesbos wants rights to 'Lesbian'


	Lesbos wants rights to 'Lesbian'

queerty

5-6-2008 5:27 AM

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lesbian, lesbos, rights

queerty says:

As a personal preference, I don't like the word anyway - it sounds like skin condition

I prefer gay.

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The islanders say that if they are successful they may then start to fight the word lesbian internationally. 
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The issue boils down to who has the right to call themselves Lesbians. 
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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?
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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. 
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In court papers, the plaintiffs allege that the Greek government is so embarrassed by the term Lesbian that it has been forced to rename the island after its capital, Mytilini. 
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