Dyke on Bikes -- the women who kickoff the annual Pride Parades and Dyke March by riding on their mechanical clitorises, with mammary glands fluttering to and fro -- have won the right to their name. Kudos! No longer having to go by the KRON 4-safe and vulgarly-clinical “San Francisco Women's Motorcycle Contingent,” the ladies who love ladies took steps at owning their name after discovering another group in Wisconsin already in the process of registering the same name for a clothing label (which would've been available at your nearest Ross or Mervyns, we sure.)
The process started in 2003 and took forever because of a gaggle of reasons: attorneys at the well-mannered and squeamish U.S. Patent and Trademark Office found the term "dykes" a tad too offensive. (The office also found Queer Eye for the Straight Guy inappropriate at first, but we're guessing for all of the wrong reasons.) Even a local, loony San Francisco resident protested the name, finding the group and its argot title "scandalous and immoral." Well, no shit.
Eventually all parties relented, and SFWMC gets to officially re-christen itself "Dykes On Bikes" now. Way to go, sisters! Body shots for everyone!