Lesbos: Sapphos lyrische Liebe zu Frauen | Stadt Land Kunst | ARTE

Aug 30, 2021 • Von der Küste des Dorfes Eresos bis hin zum Tempel von Messa: Die antike Dichterin Sappho fand auf Lesbos eine Fülle an lyrischer Inspiration. Von der ägäischen Insel aus besang eine Frau etwa 600 v. Chr. erstmals die Liebe zwischen Frauen. In ihren Schriften über Lesbos offenbarte Sappho eine Welt brennender, bisweilen von Schmerz getrübter Leidenschaften.

Greeks Evacuate Refugees from Lesbos as Island Overflows

Europe Refugee Crisis: Greek Island of Lesbos "Near Explosion"

Grèce : Lesbos, nouvelle porte d'entrée vers l'Europe pour les migrants

Au nord-est de la mer Égée, l'île de Lesbos est devenue la nouvelle porte d'entrée vers l'Europe après l'Italie pour les migrants. La plage de Sykamnia est jonchée de déchets, et les réfugiés vivent dans un campement de fortune.

Merci à Jean-Marc pour la vidéo, Niçois en vacances sur l'île.

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Migrant 'Chaos' on Greek Islands - UN Refugee Agency

BBC AMERICA: The refugee crisis on the Greek islands of Kos, Chios and Lesbos is "total chaos", the UN refugee agency UNHCR says, with inadequate accommodation, water and sanitation.

Around 50,000 people arrived in Greece in July alone, the organisation says.

Greece's leader said the country was unable to cope, and called for EU help.

Separately, Italian police arrested five suspected traffickers over the deaths of about 200 people after a migrant boat sank on Wednesday.

They included two Libyans, two Algerians and a Tunisian, held on suspicion of multiple murder and people trafficking.

Survivors have said that traffickers used knives to slash the heads of African migrants and belts to thrash Arabs to keep them in the hull. (+ BBC videos) » | Friday, August 7, 2015

Lesbians Flock to Greek Island of Lesbos for Festival
THE TELEGRAPH: Lesbians from across Europe have flocked to Greece's Lesbos island for the tenth annual International Women's Festival.

In a country strongly influenced by the Greek Orthodox church and where roughly half the population is against same-sex marriage, the lesbian-run event has been quietly growing in this corner of the Aegean Sea.

Over the past decade, attendance at the two-week International Women's Festival in the village of Eressos has jumped from 30 to hundreds of women – mainly German, British, Dutch and Scandinavian, but also Greek and Italian.

The busy programme of events includes women-only walks and sunset cruises, breathing and drumming workshops, Greek dance classes and lesbian film screenings. >>> | Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Lesbians of Lesvos Fed Up of Being Called ‘Lesbians’
Photo of the idyllic Lesvos courtesy of TimesOnline
TIMESONLINE: Dimitris Lambrou is tired of being called a lesbian.

As a magazine publisher on the Greek island of Lesvos — Lesbos according to the classical spelling — he is suing Greece’s biggest gay and lesbian association to get the term (with a small l) expunged from public usage.

He claims it is insulting to what he calls the proper Lesbians — the people of Lesvos. “We are suffering psychological and moral rape,” said Mr Lambrou.

Mr Lambrou’s magazine, called Davlos (Torch), has been campaigning against the lesbian identification with the island for years, even since gay women around the world made it a place of pilgrimage. The town of Eressos has become known as a world lesbian conference centre.

He and two local women, Maria Rodou and Kokkoni Kouvalaki, are the plaintiffs in the case scheduled to be heard in an Athens court on June 10.

“This is ludicrous,” countered Evangelia Vlami, a member of the Greek Gay and Lesbian Union, which is being sued. “The term has been in use for thousands of years to denote gay women.” The Union is now fighting for the right to same-sex marriage in this otherwise devout Orthodox country. Lesvos was the birthplace of Sappho >>> | April 30, 2008

THE GUARDIAN:
Sun, sea and Sappho >>> By Julie Bindel | May 8, 2008

BRISBANE TIMES:
'We're not gay (not that there's anything wrong with that)' >>> | By Helena Smith in Athens | June 11, 2008

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