The courts have spoken

Patton Patton

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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But in related news, citizens of Crete remain comfortable with being "cretins".

GeekLethal GeekLethal

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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:

My wife is a Lesbian, my daughter is a Lesbian and I am a Lesbian," Lambrou's witness began...

...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.

Patton Patton

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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.

Mapgirl Mapgirl

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