This Is Lesbos!

Hey, good luck with that:

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.

Or they could just change the name of the island to whatever the Greek word for 'inbred nincompoops' is.

Oh, and if I were Dimitris Lambrou, I'd be wearing a little protection around my sensitive areas:

Comments

[Jolly Bloger]

I dunno, is it really that unreasonable a request? They aren't asking gay women not to use the term, just the organization. Perhaps a lawsuit is overdoing it, but I sympathize with the sentiment.

[Vlad Drac]

What's in a name? Who decides whether a name is "real"? Pure silliness.

[Martin Owens]

Wouldn't have anything to do with attracting press attention for their tourist industry, would it?