BATTLE OF THE LESBOS

Controversy over the rights to use the name ‘lesbian’ has been stirred up by residents of the Greek island of Lesbos, last week.
They recently launched legal action attempting to ban the Greek Gay and Lesbian Union (Olke) from using the name "lesbian", and say they should have the exclusive right to bear the name.
Dimitris Lambrou, a local activist, says that residents of Lesbos are suffering "psychological and moral rape" from the "seizure" of their island's name by gays.
Mr Lambrou, who has the support of a member of a nationalist pagan association, said that the case was likely to come before a court in Athens in June.
But Evangelia Vlam, a spokesman for Olke, dismissed the claim.
"This affair is totally ridiculous," she said. "But if we are summoned by the courts, we will be heard."
Lesbos is synonymous with the love verses of the poet Sappho, who expressed her love of other women in poetry written in the early sixth century BC.