random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
  Dykes On Bikes thrummed slowly down Market Street last Sunday past the curbside perch of a 6-year-old girl. The first grader, who recently learned to ride a bicycle without training wheels, was fascinated by the squadrons of Harleys and Hondas that launched San Francisco's 27th annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade. Out-of-towners must have been amused, or scandalised, or both, at the costumery. Miles of leather. Two bridal gowns. One torso clothed in blue paint. Nighties. A tuxedo. Cowboy chaps. Creative tattoos. Bare breasts. Bare skulls. Bare buttocks. It wasn't Kansas. The little girl from San Francisco was staring. 'Mommy,' she said. 'They're not wearing helmets!'

tagged: lesbian, dykes on bikes, San Francisco, safety
  —Editorial San Francisco Examiner, 1997/7/6 , San Francisco Examiner, Editorial, July 6, 1997; quoted in Bert Archer, The End of Gay (and the Death of Heterosexuality) (2002).

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New Jersey’s Supreme Court has recognized that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their email communications — thus, law enforcement has to get a search warrant or grand jury subpoena. This was under the New Jersey Constitution and applies only to New Jersey. It’s the first major case finding a state constitutional privacy right in electronic records.

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