This Is Not A Democracy

Lesbos islanders dispute gay name
By Malcolm Brabant
BBC News, Athens

Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an attempt to stop a gay rights organisation from using the term "lesbian".

The islanders say that if they are successful they may then start to fight the word lesbian internationally.

The issue boils down to who has the right to call themselves Lesbians.

Is it gay women, or the 100,000 people living on Greece's third biggest island - plus another 250,000 expatriates who originate from Lesbos?

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.

Injunction sought

In court papers, the plaintiffs allege that the Greek government is so embarrassed by the term Lesbian that it has been forced to rename the island after its capital, Mytilini.
map of Lesbos

An early court date has now been set for judges to decide whether to grant an injunction against the Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece and to order it to change its name.

A spokeswoman for the group has described the case as a groundless violation of freedom of expression, and has pledged to fight it.

The term lesbian originated from a mythological goddess and poet called Sappho, who was a native of Lesbos.

Sappho expressed her love of other women in poetry written during the 7th Century BC.

But according to Mr Lambrou, new historical research has discovered that Sappho had a family, and committed suicide for the love of a man.


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Personally, I hate the word 'lesbian' - the way it sounds and the way it looks. I'd rather have a different one, please.

Lin! I have a challenge for you. Can you translate this for me?

It's an article written by a guy who spent a night on an investigation with me - but it's in German! DX

Edit: having translated it with Babelfish, he doesn't sound too convinced by me. But then, I'm not generally too convinced by me. I still feel pretty shocked when I get things dead accurate (like the wolfhound).

And for the record, It's Chief, not boss. And it's an in-joke between me and him.

This is one of the few times you will see me rally for a cause. But I hope you all will take the time to read and sign this. It really is sad to see that in 2008 things like this are still happening. Thanks guys.

- Gabe

THIS WILL TAKE A MINUTE OF YOUR TIME AND WILL SAVE A CREATURE AND HOPEFULLY REMOVE THIS SO-CALLED "ARTIST"!!!

In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, he tied him to a rope in an art gallery, starving him to death.

For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, until eventually he died.



( Five very disturbing pictures of this disgrace. )

Does it look like art to you?

But this is not all ... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the 'installation' was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.



Let's STOP HIM!!!!!

Click on the following link :

http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition-sign.html
(Petition Link)

or

http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html
(Alternate Link )
or just copy it in your browser to sign a petion to stop him to do it again, then digit the name Guillermo Vargas Habacuc to find the petition to sign.

Please do it.

It's free of charge and it will only take 1 minute to save the life of an innocent creature.

Please also send this to as many contact as you can... Let's stop him!!!

If you want to double check all the above information you can google the name of the 'artist' to see all I have just said corresponds to truth.



Thank you

"THIS IS FUCKING WORSE THAN PANIC AT THE DISCO! FUCK!"



Funniest and truest shit ever. You need this. It's not even bandom-orientated.

Super Mario FTW.

They found Mark Speight's body.

I feel weird. I grew up watching SMart and seeing him on TV and he did always seem like such a bright, bouncy guy.

They found him "in a remote area of Paddington Station", which I only passed through twice on Thursday. It's horrible to think that he may have been laying there dead, with thousands and thousands of people around him all the time, for days.

Poor guy. I don't approve of drug use in any capacity, but what a terrible chain of events to happen to someone.

Rest in peace, Mark.

NEW ALBUM OMGOMGOMGOMG!


If Joe's right, and the sounds he's talking about do make the album... fuck will I be happy.

I was into those bands while Joe was writing dorky Shai Hulud reviews on Amazon and proclaiming that he was both straightedge and vegan (so, actually, trusting his predictions is probably unwise).

MORRISEY! MANCHESTER BANDS! SCORE!

Ilu JTroh, I do.

edgiko - you so need to check this out.

I made Matte post it for you.

shinko - I've been waiting for you to come online for days, but I haven't seen you.

Go here. That was Jay's idea, not mine.

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THEY DON'T LIKE IT UP 'EM!

icecreamhdaches: a little late to the party, there.

New Clan stuff.

:| Not keen.