Lesbians Angry at Lesbians #
May 1st, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
Inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos are up in arms:
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.
In case you hadn’t heard, the word “lesbian” in a gay context derives from the poet Sapphos, who was from Lesbos and lived in the seventh century BCE. She wrote openly of a sexual desire for other women.
(via Passport)