Terminology imbroglio

If there is one thing that is becoming increasingly complex in the world of 'politically correct' is good to know what word to use to identify a group of individuals based on their origin or sexual orientation.

In recent decades, it is past, for example, negro, black, then African-American, like the so called eskimos when I was a child became innuits, then the Innu.

Sexuality later, the words gay and lesbian seemed not to cause turmoil, but now it also is questioned, at least as far as lesbian. Indeed, three residents of the island of Lesbos, Greece, brought a prosecution against the body Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece (translation: gay and lesbian Community of Greece), indicating that the name "insulted the identity of the inhabitants of Lesbos, who are also known as the Lesbian and Lesbians.

The case will be heard on 10 June.

(Source: AP)