Fake Lesbians
We're the true Lesbians, say islanders | Herald Sun
RESIDENTS of the Greek island of Lesbos have launched a legal case against a gay group, insisting they are the real Lesbians.
Two inhabitants of the island of Lesbos along with a member of a nationalist pagan association today launched a legal case to ban the Greek Gay and Lesbian Union (OLKE) from bearing the name "lesbian".
Lesbos was the home of the poet Sappho, who expressed her love of other women in lyric verses written in the early sixth century BC.
Lesbos residents now suffer "psychological and moral rape" from the "seizure" of their island's name by gays, said the activist Dimitris Lambrou, in a text titled The Misfortune of Being Lesbian, published on his website.
I can here the arguments now.
"GIs (geographical indication of origin) inform consumers that a product has been produced in a particular place and that it benefits from certain characteristics peculiar to that place. In the sense that GIs operate to restrict who can use them, GIs are similar to trademarks.
Place names that could become GIs are in fact prohibited from being registered as trademarks (as per Article 3(1)(c) of Directive 89/104/EEC).
The global framework for the protection of GIs is laid down by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which requires member countries of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to legislate for their protection. Within the European Union, GIs are governed by EC Regulation 2081/92 (the GI Regulation). This divides GIs into protected geographical indications (PGIs) and protected designations of origin (PDOs).
Look is it coz you're a Lesbian you won't sleep with me or just you don't fancy me?"
