In the 1980s, a lesbian community was formed on the island of Lesbos, which the documentary tells.
– In order to be proud of yourself, you have to feel safe, one woman in the community says on TV. General
Occasionally, the going became wild when lesbians set up a community on the island of Lesbos in Greece. It was chosen there an ancient time of lyrical poet Sapfon after. She first wrote about love between women.
About all of this Tzeli hadzidimitriou in his documentary Lesbos, women’s island.
– I’m a lesbian, the director says on TV.
– I was very proud to be from the same island as a woman who was the first in the world to talk about love between women.
The island became a major lesbian destination in the 1980s. In the 1990s, the position of the community became established. After a little dip, there is life on the island again. Locals are more tolerant of a permanent international lesbian community.
In the early years, the lesbian community stayed on the beach, which disturbed some of the villagers. Especially for some men, it was difficult to understand why the whole big beach was not at their disposal. General
Sometimes the controversy is already getting scary proportions. In the patriarchal village, not everyone at all realized that there were lesbians. Women’s boundaries were not respected. Young men could start closing and older goat shepherds squeeze from the backside. They got their nose and sometimes worse.
– They had razor and leather jackets with staples and what else. There were tremendously long, rotten women – Dutch and Germans – and other very feminine. They toured around here like London. They kissed, hugged and wandered in the cafes. When this happened, all the villagers immediately turned against them, one old man justifies his attitude.
Another man resent the going.
– In the morning, at half past seven were loved at the central square. It was disturbing. It couldn’t wait for the bus with the kids.
– Our behavior was disrespectful, but it was not so much due to lesbianism, one of the community in the documentary. General
One of the time on the island admits that the behavior of the community members was sometimes disrespectful. For example, they could shave their hair in the café and not clean the tracks.
– We were tremendously excited when we were able to be together. We didn’t care that this was a living village inhabited by locals, she says.
Initially, the women were allowed to be at the beach where they lived and lived quite self -sufficient. Nudity was part of the picture, as was the liberation of society’s shackles and secrecy.
– The most important thing was that you could go hand in hand and kiss freely so that no one was condemned, one says.
In lesbos, women felt that they could show their love in public as well as others. Especially in the 1980s, it was not possible everywhere. General
The other went beyond kiss.
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