Greek court: Gay women can still be “lesbians”
Lesbos locals lose lesbian appeal
Three residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have lost an attempt to ban the use of the word “lesbian” to describe gay women.
The residents argued that using the term in reference to gay women insulted their identity.
But an Athens court ruled there was no justification for their contention that they felt slighted, saying the word did not define the islanders’ identity.
Greeks often refer to the island as Mytilene, after its capital.
“This is a good decision for lesbians everywhere,” Vassilis Chirdaris, lawyer for the Gay and Lesbian Union of Greece, told Reuters news agency.
Court expenses
The island’s name was applied to gay women in acknowledgement of the female poet Sappho, who wrote love poems about both women and men in about 600 BC.
The man spearheading the case, publisher Dimitris Lambrou, had claimed that international dominance of the word in its sexual context violated the human rights of the islanders - who call themselves Lesbians - and disgraces them around the world.
He argued it caused daily problems to the social life of Lesbos’s inhabitants.
But the court disagreed, ordering the plaintiffs to pay court expenses of 230 euros ($366), although they could appeal against the decision.
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Another good proof of the power of words which show how important/unimportant their usage is (womyn, by the way, is another of those words)
In general all is about identity. Things don’t exist until we name them properly (and this is a philosophical topic from centuries ago).
I think, as once a proffesor said to our class, that he words and the obejcts they reffer are not related by nothign far the human will, pretty ambigous thing.
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Being Greek myself I found that man’s obsession over a word that is being there for decades, ridiculous!
In greek language the world Lesbian [for gay women] and Lesbian [for the islanders] are being pronounced differently
???????/ ??????
the difference is that Lesvios/Lesvia have a tone at the “Le” part of the word when
?????? [lesvia] is being toned on the “vi” part.
in Greek language a tone can make a word means two different things so that man’s logic has no base 
