Lesbos islanders dispute gay name

by AlanEvans | May 1, 2008 at 06:08 am | 374 views | 7 comments

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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?

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jordan

at 10:27 on May 1st, 2008

For some reason I thought it was "Lesboan".

Barry Artiste

at 11:00 on May 1st, 2008

Don't you mean Lesbanon?

Rhonda J Mangus

at 11:37 on May 1st, 2008

good stuff:

AlanEvans, it would probably serve the inhabitants of Lesbos to reclaim what they are properly referred to: "Lesviots" or "Lesvonians", rather than make issue of an identifying term born out of the fact that "Lesviots" or "Lesvonians" was lost in translation from classical Greek to English where they have been referred to (incorrectly), and apparently (permitted) as "Lesbians".