Lesbians sue Lesbians

Saw this article today about the people of Lesbos, Greece - home to the ancient Greek poet Sappho (who praised love between women, hence the present-day term lesbian) - filing a lawsuit against a Greek gay persons association for using the term 'lesbian' in their name. After scratching my head and checking my calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1st or that I had secretly been redirected to the Onion, I cracked up. Seriously? I guess the crux of the argument is this:

"My sister can't say she is a Lesbian," said Dimitris Lambrou. "Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos," he said.

But this part in particular I found pretty confusing/funny:

Lambrou says Sappho was not gay. "But even if we assume she was, how can 250,000 people of Lesbian descent — including women — be considered homosexual?"

First of all, thanks for clearing that up, Dimitris. Second, huh? I'm not sure how that logic could possibly make any sense. Is that really what he's concerned about? Just in case he's wrong and Sappho was gay, maybe a quarter-million people thousands of years later that happen to live in the same area might also all be gay? And isn't it a just a little to late to suggest that LGBT women stop calling themselves lesbian? I mean, the cat has long since left the bag on that one, I'm afraid. Hasn't that term been in use for hundreds of years now? (According to wikipedia, since 1732, was in the 1890 Oxford-English Dictionary). Anyways, good luck with that, Lesbians.