Perfidy
The courts have spoken
Court rules lesbians are not just from Lesbos
Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:21pm EDT ATHENS (Reuters) – A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday.
Three residents of Lesbos, the birthplace of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho whose love poems inspired the term lesbian, brought a case last month arguing the use of the term in reference to gay women insulted their identity.
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Related:
… Straight Lesbians Want Their Identity Back
… Also, a quote for which I cannot, for the life of me, find a link on the web, Cliff Clavin of Cheers referring to someone as being “…from the island of Lesbos”, which I remember thinking, at the time many years ago, was both hilarious and totally made up.
GeekLethal
But in related news, citizens of Crete remain comfortable with being “cretins”.
Buckethead
I’m just waiting to hear from those fuckers in Intercourse, PA.
Patton
Funny thing, it just occurred to me to wonder: Who in the fuck were they suing? And what relief were they seeking? To be enforced by whom?
I guess I could go read the complaint, or the Der Spiegel article on same, but I can never get past the quote:
…without laughing my ass off a the coincidence. You see, I, too, am a lesbian. Just trapped in a man’s body, sort of like Lambrou.
mapgirl
A pox on you all! One of my favorite poems in Latin goes “Vivamus mea Lesbia!” Catullus I think… (Let us live [together] my Lesbia [a name]) Sappho is actually quite nice in Greek, but I guess I am greatly outnumbered in my appreciation of classic Greek and Latin poetry and everyone else juvenalia.
le sigh.
btw, bestest most romantic line? “Da mille basia! Deinde centum.” Give me a thousand kisses! Then a hundred more.