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Weekly Round Up for Friday April 29th

Happy Friday!   According to Rebecca Black today is all about fun, fun, fun, fun, but before you rush off to celebrate the royal wedding/ or get dolled up for Saturday’s ICD’s “An Evening Under the Stars” event, here are a a few highlights from this week’s news. You know, in case they somehow missed your Facebook feed. Because […]

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Hate Crime in Ohio Kills Eight Horses

A case of arson connected to a hate crime in Ohio, has killed eight horses. “FAGS” and “FREAKS” were spray painted on the property where an ignited barn fire killed the helpless horses. Seven adult horses and one foal died as a result of an arson fire at 874 West Richards Road in McConnelsville just

VIDEO: Transgender Woman Beaten at McDonalds While People Watch

WARNING: The attached video is very violent and difficult to watch but illustrates the violence trans people face every day. Use the link in the attached text from Bilerico Project to contact McDonald’s about this incident. Courtesy Bilerico Project… This is absolutely disgusting. After an unidentified transwoman tried to use the bathroom at a Baltimore

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Al Franken Questions Steve Jobs

Here comes the first major threat to iPhones (well, not the first, the Droid by Motorola is already performing impressively against the iPhone, and in many areas surpassing its initial breakthrough). It appears the phones track your every movement and it doesn’t take much for someone else to get that information. Android devices are riddled

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Website Queerty Shuts Down

Queerty, an internet website posting news and entertainment focused on the LGBT Community, and often a source of controversial commentary, has shut down after 5 years…the following message is from Queerty… A message from Queerty After more than five years of serving the LGBT community with news and entertainment, Queerty has come to a close.

Supreme Court Says Anti Gay Funeral Pickets Allowed

Courtesy Associated Press… WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a grieving father’s pain over mocking protests at his Marine son’s funeral must yield to First Amendment protections for free speech. All but one justice sided with a fundamentalist church that has stirred outrage with raucous demonstrations contending God is punishing the military