Lesbos Women

The island of Lesbos has always been a favorite holiday destination for women. Where else can you get beaches, bars and accommodation that are women only and gay friendly?
We love it for many reasons, but it is probably the only place where, during the tourist season, gay women are the majority rather than the minority.
Wether you are a regular visitor to Lesbos, or you are considering the island for the first time, there is plenty of information on the Internet. Most of it, however, is mereley practical.
My aim is to make things more informal, to share information and stories.
2009 promises to be aother great year in Skala Eressos.
There will be plenty to talk about!

I have started a site containing popular clips and montages from
The L Word
Leave me a message if there is something in particular that you want to see and I will find it for you and upload it onto the site.

June 11, 2008
From The Times
As some islanders launch a legal case to prevent the name Lesbos being associated with lesbians, one writer objects to the objectors.
If, like me, you're seething with righteous indignation about the homophobic residents of Lesbos, who have gone to court to get the L word banned when used in reference to lesbians, you probably have the face of Dimitris Lambrou, the plaintiff, pinned to a dartboard. While lesbians in more than 80 countries are still denied their basic equal rights and more than 50 per cent of Britain's lesbian youth are bullied, poor old Lambrou and his sister are upset that use of the word violates the human rights of the islanders and disgraces them around the world. Clearly, Hellenics hath no fury like a lesbian scorned. But beneath my own tut-tutting lies an irony that might solve his and some of our own privileged contemporary concerns. Lambrou may not know it, but some lesbians wish that they could scratch the L word. Often used pejoratively, the term shares an unfortunate phonetic similarity to "less than", "loser" and, some say, an exotic venereal disease. When I asked a friend whether she liked being called a lesbian, she said: "No, I like being called Barbara." When the writer Diana Souhami was asked by a reporter if she was a lesbian, she replied: "Yes, but not at the moment. It's 9.30 in the morning and I'm thirsty." Earlier this year, a group of lesbians unhappy with the antiquated moniker launched a worldwide campaign to have the term changed to "gayelle" a nifty combination of gay and elle, meaning "she" in French. Its advocates believe that a more positive and modern word is needed to counteract the negative legacy of the term. If Lambrou and his supporters win their case against a gay rights organisation for using the word, perhaps there are some other islands that would consider sharing their name with us? My first choice would be the Canadian island of Princess Royal. If gay men can be queens there's no reason we can't have a bite of the regal cherry and be princesses. Butch and androgynous lady-lovers can have the Australian King Island. Or why not name and claim our own island as gay rights activists in Australia did four years ago? Uninhabitable they may be, but the Coral Sea Islands have been claimed as a homosexual micro-nation. All they need now are some lesbians to make house. Jane Czyzselska