Earlier this year, Chrissy Polis, 23, was attacked in a Baltimore McDonald’s after using the women’s restroom and is now making headlines again for her unrelated Dec. 3 arrest for disorderly conduct. Police arrested Polis after she “became disorderly and shouted obscenities at a police officer who arrived at her apartment after she called police,”…
A surge of teen suicides arising from online bullying have made headlines, and Facebook has noticed. Using the popular social platform as a medium for bullying and expressions of suicide, kids now have a safe place to talk to a crisis counselor about bullying or suicide, in addition to reporting it. The program launched Tuesday…
‘Gay’ penguins Buddy and Pedro got their fair share of attention last month when zookeepers at the Toronto Zoo separated the two lovebirds for mating season. Despite the protest to keep the two penguins together, both Buddy and Pedro are taking a liking to their new female partners, the zoo said in a statement to…
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd class Jase Daniels, 29, was reinstated as into active duty as a linguist after the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and the law firm of Morrison & Foerster pushed for his return to duty. He was sworn in Monday. “Today, I took an oath and affirmed to defend the Constitution…
Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe is set to portray Allen Ginsberg in a new play about the poet’s life. Kill Your Darlings, a new independent drama about poetry, gay stalkers and murder in 1940s New York directed by John Krokidas, will chart the gay poet’s relationships with Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr,…
Influenced by the protests and removal of former Egyptian president Muhammad Mubarak, Canadian anti-consumerism group Adbusters (best known for its self titled magazine) makes a public proposal to occupy Wall Street Sept. 17 with the demand for President Obama to create a presidential commission to end the influence of money on politics and government. Less…
Let’s make a few things clear right off the bat. Yes, I read the entire California Supreme Court decision on Perry v. Brown. No, I am not a lawyer. But I do know that fixing dumb laws is the job of legislators and citizens, not the judiciary, an inconvenient truth the California Supreme Court seems…
The number of U.S. companies choosing to cover the cost of gender reassignment surgery has nearly doubled from 2009, New York Daily News is reporting. The Human Rights Campaign reported Thursday that 207 of the 636 surveyed businesses provide or will start providing transgender-inclusive healthcare benefits. The increase in transgender benefits is well-received by candidates…
Born and raised in Brockton, Mass. Bonnie Dumanis, San Diego County’s district attorney since 2003, describes her upbringing as scrappy, and the neighborhood where she was raised as “fighting.” In fact, her father went to school with the mythical boxing champ, Rocky Marciano. Today, Dumanis (60) is fighting some tough competition of her own as…
