Angelina Jolie is ultimate lesbian heroine

Of all papers The Daily Telegraph is featuring a poll of 2,600 lesbians to find out which woman, famous that is, ranked as the world's ultimate lesbian heroine. That's the lesbian world because I don't think it covers the whole world. No more than a poll of 2,600 Top Gear fans voting for the best race round a motor track by Stig would represent the whole world's opinion.

It's all a bit of fun. I'd never have guessed Dolly Parton was in the top twenty at No.20 - she could feature in a whole host of polls including best wig, best cleavage, best singer, best anything. Angelina Jolie comes in at No.1 making her a real icon. But this woman has six kids and knows Brad Pitt intimately (that should be the other way round!). "Angelina was the clear winner; and she also has a dark side which many lesbians like too," said a spokesman for One Poll who carried out he survey.

I'm just wondering who else was on the list. Those in the lower rankings. That could through up all manner of names. But we don't get told. Pity!

Lesbians come out fighting - nominally speaking!

What's in a name? Sometimes not a lot, other times it is your very identity. If I was a Lesbian I would not be too pleased if everytime I told people I was one it provoked amusement, silly laughter and innuendo. That is apparently the sort of thing that happens to Lesbians every day. They have the good fortune to live on the Greek island of Lesbos. Now, as we know, female homosexuals have appropriated the name. In fact, for most people around the world, it is the latter they think of before considering the people of Lesbos (if they ever do).

A similar fate beheld the people of the French region of Alsace. Alsatians are a people of distinct background with a language and culture. Canine it is not. For some reason, they managed to get dog owners and breeders in England to call the animal a German Shepherd rather than Alsatian, although some do lapse on occasions. Some name identities are confused by association of ideas. Mongolians or Mongols had to endure being likened to Down's Sydrome simply on account of their facial features. Siam (now called Thailand) disliked the term siamese twins preferring to get the world to speak of conjoined twins.

Can the people of Lesbos succeed in protecting their name? Judges in Greece will have to decide whether to grant an injunction against the Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece and to order it to change its name. Apparently history is on the side of the campaigners. Sapphos, the Greek goddess whose name is linked with female homosexuality and was a native of Lesbos, was no lover of other women, but a heterosexual female who had a family, and committed suicide for the love of a man. So that puts the record straight, then!