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Subject: [Leica] A Photograph and a few comments about Orlando and the Philly Gay Pride Parade
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:38:24 +0530
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Cheers
Jayanand

Sent from my iPad

> On 13-Jun-2016, at 10:38, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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> That?s the spirit, Jim!
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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>> On 13 Jun 2016, at 04:08, Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com> wrote:
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>> Today I did about the only thing I could do in light of Orlando: dusted 
>> off
>> my culottes, packed a dozen rolls of film along with my Bronica S2,  and
>> marched in the Philly Gay Pride Parade?exactly as I?ve done every year
>> since '79 (my feet ached less then, though I was also several stone
>> lighter.) The purpose of terrorism is to get people to panic and hide,
>> which I refuse to do (Including when I walked around Boston the day of the
>> dragnet/shutdown.)  After a Facebook friend put out one of those fatuous
>> "be alert and be safe" notes (of course, from some aerie far from the
>> streets), I said that fearing attack the day after Orlando is like one of
>> those irrational snowstorm warnings that come immediately AFTER every 
>> major
>> snowstorm. The best place to be is out on the street?and ironically, after
>> a mass shooting one of the safest, since the streets were packed with
>> police, and I?m sure no shortage of plainclothes FBI personnel.  I?ve 
>> lived
>> long enough to remember the Upstairs Lounge arson attack in ?73, Dan
>> White?s rampage in ?78, and God knows how many shootings, stabbings, and
>> other horrors since.  Still here, still marching?next in NYC, Baltimore,
>> and many other spots where fine homosexuals are served.
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/Philly+Pride+Parade+06+12+16+sm.jpg.html
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>> Bronica S2, Zenzanon 150/3.5, Arista EDU100 at 200
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>> Jim Shulman
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>> Wynnewood, PA
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