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There is also a Greek community out there in real life, laughing and crying and getting on
with their
lives, mostly invisible, and more or less afraid of the world "community", in spite of our longing to feel
like we do
belong somewhere. We're trying to provide any relevant information about every available group and
'friendly' place, in
spite of the fact that even the only almost-women-only Athens bar, refused to be listed as a lesbian bar,
to the very
day they had to close down.
But our need to provide information is great, so there's no lesbian places
in Greece? OK
with us, we list "gay-friendly" and places where "Sapphites might be hanging around" ...
A few words about the Sapphites:
I started building these pages back in December 2000. My first objective was to inform the Greek
surfer about the lesbian world - planetwide, cyberspace and local info. It is a big task, too big for a lone
sapphite, and
there's also our second equaly important objective of informing the world cuber-citizent about lesbianism in Greece, today.
Then I learned about mailing lists.. the magic of building a world-wide community without "being exposed"
.. Now the Sapphites group
is about ninety greek-speaking women members of the Sapphites mailing list and about a hundred members of
the e-club (some of them are the same persons), sharing information about
everything that interests us, and very slowly (almost painfully) learning to speak up about the
discrimination we were taught
to accept silently..
Our next "new page" could well be one to report our daily problems and frustrations living in a
heterosexual- orientated
and absolutely male-dominated society.
About the pages: I was hoping there would be some more Sapphites offering to help share the task over
the years, but what with most thinking of this as a personal site (!!!), or thinking they don't know about
web-design, or their time is too tight, or they're professional web-designers and their notion of offering help is to
start changing everything, including text, writting style and background colours, missing the point that this site needs
A. a constant flow of incoming info, B. a couple of persons updating certain subjects at least monthly (like
world & local news,
articles, movies, Sapphite Logos.. etc.)
and adding local guides for more Greek places, C. some real major organisation of our pages and menus - to
make it easier for the visitor to locate what they're looking for .. and then when these basic priorities
are well under way, there will be time to talk about major looks changes, over certain discussable proposals.
Support the Sapphites :
You may support the Sapphites pages by telling us what you think about our site, and suggestions about
improving it.
Send us news, articles, stories and relevant links to add. Tell us about broken links, errors & problems
you found in
any Sapphite page. When reporting errors please refer to the page title or address or section where you
found them.
Thank you.
So yes, you can help if you like, starting as simple as writing to us about mistakes and dead
links in our
pages, offering advice about subjects the international lesbian community would rather expect to find in
here, sending
us information and news (especially local news, anything of interest to the Greek lesbians, and major
world community
news that sooner or later will affect us all .. ), sending your writings for publication in the Sapphite
Logos
e-journal, .. up to the more difficult task of offering to help with updating or/and expanding certain
subjects.
In the remote case we failed to include your page, forum, club, mailing list, avenue or other
Sapphite-friendly business, and especially your lesbian-relative article, text or any kind of publication, we apologise
humbly. Please contact us to correct this as soon as humanly possible. Note that we won't list links to sites classified
for certain age or other groups of people,
as we need our pages to stay accessible for everyone, and especially for the youth seeking information.
The best way to find most of our pages without broken links problems is through our subject index
and the site map - most pages link to them both.
The only problem of homoerotic people is the fact that there are some individuals
refusing to accept our basic human rights. The real problem arises when these individuals try to enforce
their negative
personal views, insisting that gender choices should be subject to some kind of court, religion, or some
other kind of
rigid and one-sided social approval. Trying to enforce their make-believe that we should observe some
alleged rules
prescribing the supposedly 'right' anatomy of the persons we are allowed to love.
The freedom to love the person we choose is a non-negotiable basic human right.
International Organisations
(full page in Greek)
Greek Organisations
some more ..
Sites loaded with links
catalogues & search engines
| A Dyke's World
http://www.dykesworld.de a Great site with a lot of info .. Dedicated to Celebrate Lesbian Visibility and Diversity. Love & Respect to all of us! - Indina has goodbyed us all visitors.. keep going on.. |
Club - a
"Dykes on Bikes"
group message board hosted at the GreekLesbiansCommunity. (see above - same rules apply)
GBA, Gay Business Association
An organisation, of businesses, organisations and individuals in business who provide products and/or
services to members of the gay and lesbian community in a non-discriminatory manner. Started in the United
Kingdom, tends to spread all over Europe...
Lesbian Travel
(in Greece) - from CyberDykes
mainly targeting foreigners, promices much, and only links to one site
containing some info
about Eressos. In English.
Pearl's rainbow, Key West,
Caribean
A women-only guest-house, 2 pools ...
Pennal Bed & Breakfast, North Wales, exclusively gay & Lesbian bed
&breakfast
Pennal Post Office, Pennal, Machynlleth, Powys (+044 -1654) 791209 - Richard Lingard
(url: http://snowdonia.cjb.net/ - sold out )
Australia :
Pinkmaps
Pinkmaps provides information for the gay & lesbian traveller about the locations you are
about to visit here in Australia. It informs you on the locations to live theatre, restaurants, bars,
clubs, saunas, community groups and accommodation houses on our three state maps.
London : Gingerbeer.co.uk
New Zealand : www.womentravel.co.nz
Accommodation, adventures retreats and other essential information for the woman traveller in New
Zealand.
Portugal : travel guide & directory
Matina's updates...
Matina is a good friend and please refrain from calling her names (like 'gossip') .. she just likes to keep us informed about anything she knows. This is her the area for her news bulletins ... (note)older ...
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