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Migrants Reaching Greece Despite Efforts to Block Them
Greece :: NY :: USA | 21 days ago
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Stop the boat now!” the captain of the Greek Coast Guard patrol vessel yelled over the bullhorn, turning a spotlight on the flimsy dinghy as it chugged toward this island in the Aegean Sea. As the dinghy sputtered to a halt, a crowd of frightened faces...
Tags: Greece, Lesbos, E.U., migrants reached, Turkey, Frontex, Lesbos Prefecture, Lampedusa, Illegal immigration, Lesbos Island, Crimes, Social Issues, Politics
Residents of island Lesbos try to ban word "lesbian"
A request made to an Athens court by residents of the Greek island Lesbos that called for the term "lesbian" to be eliminated in reference to gay women was rejected last week. The residents claimed the word was offensive to their identity,...
‘Lesbians are not just from Lesbos’
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility Lesbians are not just from Lesbos' Athens, July 22: 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...
Tags: Lesbos, gay women, Greece, term lesbians, women insulted, poetess sappho, Athens, Sappho, love poems, word lesbians
Greek court considers Lesbos v. lesbians case
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility The court heard both sides and will deliver a ruling on the case in two months at the latest," said a court official who declined to be named. The plaintiffs, who argue the northern Aegean island's residents are the only true Lesbians, told the court...
Tags: lesbos, lesbian, Lesbos Island
Lesbos residents say gays insult island
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility Greece � Three islanders from Lesbos told a court Tuesday that gay women insult the island�s identity by calling themselves lesbians. The plaintiffs � two women and a man � want to ban a Greek gay rights group from using the word ��lesbian��...
Lesbos islanders sue lesbian group
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between gay women and the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos...On Wednesday, one of the plaintiffs said that the name of the association, the Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, "insults the...
Tags: lesbian, Lesbos, lesbos residents
Lesbians unhappy with Gay women
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility Three islanders from Lesbos - home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women - have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name. One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the association, Homosexual...
Tags: Lesbos
People of Lesbos take gay group to court over term 'Lesbian'
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility Associated Press Writer A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women...One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the association, Homosexual and Lesbian Community...
Tags: lesbian, lesbos, women, People of Lesbos
We're the true Lesbians, say islanders
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility Greek island synonymous with the love verses of an ancient woman poet have launched a legal case against a gay group insisting that they are the real Lesbians...Lesbos was the home of the poet Sappho, who expressed her love of other women in lyric verses...
Tags: lesbian, lesbos, People of Lesbos, gay group
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