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include the following ..
Most local people prefer to pretend we don't exist (including a
lot of Greek lesbians!)
* well, obviously we do!
(Yes mama,
you know I exist, you 've been occasionally asking about my
girlfriends well-being, you 've been accepting their best wishes on
my birthday when they can't reach me, you 've been thanking them for
being my good friends when I'm not present, and you know what? - you
should be proud of all this work I've been doing in here!)
Skala Eressos is Lesbian paradise on earth
*
Well, .. actually it all depends on the point of view,
but if it
were the paradise it's supposed to be, why don't most of the lesbians
that have ever been there just decide to spend the rest of their
lives there ?
And then again why do so many of the lesbians I
know personally respond so negatively to the mere suggestion of
taking a short holiday there?
The truth is.. Skala Eressos is one
of the great sea-side holiday places, and a lot of lesbians chose to
have their holidays there, so in the summer there's really a lot of
lesbians around, and a lot of lesbian owned avenues, and more
lesbian-friendly places than in all the rest of Greece. But some of
the facts that make it quite short of being a real paradise are..
that not all the locals are so happy about hosting all those lesbians
every summer, that it's not so easy to get a life-job job in Eressos,
while you still have to pay for almost everything, usually in cash,
and it's almost impossible to get an out-of-tourist-season job there.
.. that a lot of lesbians go there when they're single, to have
fun and.. "whatever" ..
.. that a good percentage of
the lesbian tourists (both greek and foreign) go there with their
sweethearts - which occasionally happens to be a great sample of the
ultra-jealous species on the planet .. That Sappho is not there
anymore.. not during the last couple of millenniums.
But beware,
locals are fed up with their peers bullying about being "lesbians",
in the worst usage of the word meanings.. some of them become hostile
occasionally dangerously, and 3 of them went as far as suing to
challenge the ban of the lesbian word usage referring to homosexual
women, the First Instance court of Athens is discussing the subject
for the first time on June 10th, 2008.
So resuming .. better have
a nice holiday in Skala Eressos with a group of good friends and
acquaintances, but better keep a small basket, and you have a good
bet for a great lesbian holiday. After all, most lesbian women that
have had holidays there usually come back a lot.. and they surely
know better.
Most women from Lesbos island are homosexuals.
* No, they're
not. There's no statistics available, but every sign shows that the
homosexual women coming from the island of Lesbos are about the same
percentage as in every other place in the world (possibly around
10%). A fact is that the homosexual women comming from the island of
Lesbos are really proud about their homosexuality-and-place-of-origin
double "lesbianism".
It's better to keep low and hiding..
* we 'been
keeping low and hiding for so long, and what's improved in our
life-quality?
Greece is a queer paradise.
* Do paradise residents have to
hide their sexual id in order to get a job? Do paradise residents
accused of being homosexuals have to quit their teaching job? Do they
have to live in the closet, or nobody will ever support them, not
even fellow-queers? Do they have to get a job in a far-away town/city
in order to justify having their own home, or sharing a flat with "a
friend" ? Are they afraid to visit their feminist center,
because people may know that lesbians also meet there on a different
evening? Do paradise residents that get a chance to study abroad
usually get a job and stay abroad for life?... mmm
I don't think
so. So, whoever tries to imply that Greece is a queer paradise, is
either ignorant or trying to fool you into something.
last, but not least: Greek
lesbians are great !
* They surely are !!!
But beware,
internal homophobia and long-suppressed anger may pop out any time
and ruin a lot.. And therapists are not fashionable here, and most of
them are homophobes..
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