Saturday, October 16, 2010

Bill O'Reilly's Ignorance Strikes Again!

On the Last Word on MSNBC, Bill O'Reilly's visit was picked apart:

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Honorable? Perez Hilton Swears off Bullying and Outing

Perez made an appearance on Ellen's show and had this to say:

The Air Force Has Stopped Enforcing Gay Ban

From the Associated Press:

"The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network circulated an e-mail on Thursday that it says was written by the Air Force’s Judge Advocate General Richard Harding. In that e-mail, Harding says the Defense Department “will abide” by a court order that says the military can no longer discharge service members who are openly gay."

Adulterous Affairs = Repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell?

Tea-Party backed candidate for Delaware's U.S. Senate says that repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" would be like telling the military to endure adulterous affairs between married people.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Gender Free Bathrooms in Starbucks

From TBD.com on October 1st, 2010:

"Starting Monday, local Starbucks locations will begin swapping out the "Men's" and "Women's" bathroom signs on each of the coffee chain's restroom facilities inside the District of Columbia. Within a month, all 52 of D.C.'s Starbucks single-stall bathrooms will be gender-neutral.

The switch comes after campaigning efforts by local LGBT groups the DC Trans Coalition and the DC Center, who are pushing all local businesses to comply with a little-known regulation in D.C. law ensuring that all public restrooms are equally accessible to transgender and gender-nonconforming people."

Discrimination? Certainly Not!

Discrimination? Certainly Not!

A video by Rob Tisinai on his take of the stupid arguments against same sex marriage:

A Movie About Constance McMillen

"ABC Family is developing a TV movie about the lesbian teenager who made national news after her high school banned her from the prom, network reps say.[...]

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are attached to the TV movie, which is in early stages of development, ABC Family reps say." -- Quote taken from a story on Bilerico Project.

Two Teens and Man Beaten and Sodomized

9 men from the ages of 16 through 26 kidnapped 2 teens and took them to an empty apartment in the Bronx. The teens were beaten and sodomized until one of them admitted to having sex with a 30 year old man. The men then told the 30 year old to bring liquor to what they told him was a house party.

From the NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/nyregion/09bias.html?_r=1):

"The attackers forced the man to strip to his underwear and tied him to a chair, the police said. One of the teenage victims was still there, and the “Goonies” ordered him to attack the man. The teenager hit him in the face and burned him with a cigarette on his nipple and penis as the others jeered and shouted gay slurs, the police said. Then the attackers whipped the man with a chain and sodomized him with a small baseball bat.

The beatings and robberies went on for hours. They were followed by a remarkably thorough attempt to sanitize the house — including pouring bleach down drains, the police said, as little by little word of the attacks trickled to the police. A crucial clue to the attackers was provided by someone who slipped a note to a police officer outside the crime scene, at 1910 Osborne Place in Morris Heights, near Bronx Community College."

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Young Boy Cheerleader Assaulted

Eleven-year-old Tyler Wilson of Findlay, Ohio is a kid that loves gymnastics and tumbling. He joined the football team's cheerleading squad and all hell broke lose.

From to ABC News:

"According to the mother and the police report filed on the incident, Tyler was walking home from school when two of his alleged tormentors approached him and punched him. As Tyler continued his walk home from school, the two boys continued to follow him, the police report said. Several small skirmishes broke out between Tyler and the two boys, according to the police report, and eventually one of the boys allegedly picked Tyler up and slammed him on the ground, breaking his arm."

Judge Vaughn Walker Retires

From the Chronicle

The federal judge who struck down California’s gay marriage ban as unconstitutional this year announced Wednesday he is retiring from the bench after 21 years.

Lynn Fuller, a spokeswoman for U.S. District Court in San Francisco, said Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker notified President Barack Obama by letter Wednesday that he will step down in February.

"It Gets Better": Reaching out to Stop Teen Suicide

“Go To A Country Where They Hang People Like You”

In La Crosse, Wisconsin, where they host an annual festival, the parade commodore shoved a 14-year-old girl who was carrying two rainbow flags just before a parade on Saturday.

According to the La Crosse Tribune:

"Commodore Mark Schneider, who was on a float nearby, approached the girl and put his hands on the flagpole, [the LGBT center's Executive Director Rosanne] St. Sauver said. St. Sauver walked over, placed her hands on the pole and told him, “Please stop, she’s a 14-year-old child.”

“He said, ‘I do not care. Look what you are teaching them,’” St. Sauver said.

That’s when, St. Sauver said, Schneider shoved the girl with his body.

St. Sauver said Schneider told the girl: “Go to a country where they will hang people like you.“

The incident left the teen crying, and others upset, St. Sauver said. This is the first year the center has participated in the parade."

Of course, Schneider denies it.

Students Violate Privacy that Ends a Life

A body pulled from the Hudson was ruled not only as a suicide, but was the body of Tyler Clementi. He jumped off of the George Washington Bridge after his roommate, Dharan Ravi, livestreamed him having sex with another male student on the internet. Dharan and fellow freshman Molly Wei were charged by the police with several counts of violating Tyler’s privacy.