While I can sympathize with their frustration over the appropriation of the name, they are about 300 years too late to do anything about it. According to Wiki, English did the initial pocket-rifling around the 1700s.
There's also a missed opportunity for tourism promotion here: "Lesbos! Where Lesbians feel right at home!" Of course, marketing to the female gay community would be easier if the plaintiffs (and presumably other islanders) didn't find the connotations so "disgraceful".
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Date: 2008-05-02 02:50 pm (UTC)There's also a missed opportunity for tourism promotion here: "Lesbos! Where Lesbians feel right at home!"
Of course, marketing to the female gay community would be easier if the plaintiffs (and presumably other islanders) didn't find the connotations so "disgraceful".