Sappho
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The word lesbian is derived from the island of Lesbos, the birthplace of Sappho, who was a homosexual.
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Koyel Ghosh, who uses "they" and "them" as personal pronouns, is the managing trustee of Sappho for Equality, the first Lesbian-Bisexual-Transmasculine people rights collective in eastern India that started two decades ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023
Sappho is an apt avatar for Schwartz’s project: The totalizing excess of queer art can overwhelm you with laughter or longing, blotting out the painful experiences it sometimes describes.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023
They may be the fragments missing from Schwartz’s homage to Sappho — this elusive, at times joyful and enveloping not-quite-novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
These poems resurrect an eclectic cast of characters, from Sappho to James Baldwin, to reflect on the poet’s vital yet unanswerable question: “What disaster will I deliver to my daughter?”
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
Likewise, my grandfather preferred to spend his mornings working on a modern Greek translation of the “restored” poems of Sappho.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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