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 lesbian-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 gay 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.
