The courts have spoken

Cry Havoc

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.

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