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News (USA)
Grandmother from hell terrorized gay neighbors for months. She’s going to jail.
Elvira Baptiste blasted music about killing gay people, put up homophobic posters, and even waved soiled tampons at the gay couple.
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Life
Matt Damon says he didn’t tell his daughter a “f****t” joke in response to outcry
“I have never called anyone ‘f****t’ in my personal life and this conversation with my daughter was not a personal awakening.”
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News (USA)
Man spits in the face of a pregnant Asian woman & calls her anti-gay slurs in shocking video
“It was terrible. I had a meltdown at work,” the woman said about what she believes was a bias-motivated attack.
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Life
Don’t leave out the Q: study concludes the term queer is a ‘distinct’ sexuality
The term still offends many people, but research reflects that people are using it to define their sexuality – and this study lends credence to it.
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Bias Watch
Republican leader who used slur pushed to resign, but won’t go quietly
This Delaware Republican’s claim that “f***ots cannot handle reality” – because he couldn’t post a video of a mass shooting to Facebook – has even alienated most of his fellow conservatives.
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News (USA)
Out bartender ‘heartbroken’ over threatening note from ‘Trump Nation’
“We don’t want fa**ots in this country!!!” read the note. Whoever wrote the hate message wanted it to be associated with President-elect Donald Trump.
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News (USA)
Cab company supports driver who yelled anti-gay slurs outside gay bar
Portland Taxi told a reporter: “If the gays don’t want to use our company, that’s better for us.”
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Commentary
Staying high in the days of going low: Lessons from Michelle Obama
When verbal abuse becomes part and parcel of the everyday parlance, we have created a society characterized by zero tolerance of inclusion and diversity.