keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris Keesan) (12/01/83)
------------------------------- I've also wondered about the connection between the Greek letter lambda and homosexuality. THe only hypothesis I've been able to come up with is that the lower-case lambda looks a lot like the Chines ideogram for "man". I suppose it could also be related to some appropriate physical or chemical constant that I'm unaware of. There's certainly no help in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, which tells me that besides being a letter, lambda is also one thousandth of a cubic centimeter, and an uncharged unstable elementary particle with 2183 times the mass of an electron and the tendency to decay into a nucleon and a pion. Anyone know the real answer?
braddy@houxl.UUCP (12/02/83)
I think it is the first greek letter of the name of the Greek isle of Lesbos (sp?), (and or the name of someone who lived there?), from which comes "Lesbian".