World’s First L*sbian Cemetery Opens [See Photo]

Dozens of elderly women gathered have gathered at a
graveyard in Berlin , were they celebrated an historic
event: the opening of the world’s first l*****n-only
cemetery.
A 4,300 -square-foot area was made available in one of
the German capital’s oldest burial grounds, the
Lutheran Georgen Parochial cemetery , and will serve
as the final resting place for up to 80 g*y women.
The women cheering and applauding among the
tombstones that day were members of SAFIA, a German
association of older lesbians who came up with the
initiative as a way for their community to stay together
in the afterlife.
“We are the first real generation of emancipated,
feminist, open lesbians, and we need somewhere to
be buried,” explains Astrid Osterland, a 69-year-old
SAFIA member. “Lots of us don’t have families to be
buried with. Instead, we want to lie with those we’ve
fought alongside, loved and lived with”, she said.
For Berlin’s lesbians, the cemetery is more than just a
final resting place. It holds political significance for
them as the generation of women who fought for the
right to love openly and who now want their cause to
be visible for posterity.
“Families want to be together after death, and we want
it too”, Osterland concluded.