'Dykes on Bikes' trademark survives Dublin lawyer's challenge

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/07/BAKOUAMMP.DTL

My nominee for The Most Pathetic Person of the Year...

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a lawyer's challenge today to a San Francisco motorcycle club's trademark of the name "Dykes on Bikes" for the contingent that leads the annual Gay Pride parade.

Michael McDermott, a Dublin attorney, disputed a January 2006 decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to grant the San Francisco Women's Motorcycle Contingent exclusive legal rights to the name it has used for more than three decades.

The office initially rejected the organization's 2003 trademark application - saying the word "dykes" was disparaging to lesbians - but approved it after considering additional evidence.

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Asked about the court's action, McDermott replied with an e-mail describing the motorcycle procession as an "anti-male hate riot" but did not comment on the ruling.

People should be free to label themselves however they choose.

That includes the folks at "Heeb Magazine."

http://citypages.com/databank/27/1348/article14760.asp

· April 9, 2005 Two days later, at a public forum on the gay marriage ban, Bachmann leaves early after an incident in a bathroom at the Scandia City Hall. She files a police report claiming she was held against her will by two members of a "gay and lesbian activist group." "I don't think there's a crime for us to investigate," Sheriff Jim Frank tells the Star Tribune at the time, even though the police report suggests that Bachmann was briefly blocked from leaving the restroom.

An account of the episode posted on an anti-Bachmann website reports that people outside heard her "piercing screams" of "Help!!!!" and that when she emerged "in a crouching run" she cried, "I was being held against my will!" The Washington County Sheriff's Department investigates Bachmann's complaint and forwards the results to the county attorney's office. The case is dropped.

Call me when they resurrect Valerie Solanas and give her your home address, douche.

wonder which fundie group hes affiliated with