There is a new video game out right now where you can help the main character Commander Shepard fall in love with another man. According to the Huffington Post, Mass Effect 3 has an option in the plot line for gamers to choose a gay relationship for the main character. As the story develops, players will see a kiss at a bar in the club, a topless morning after scene of Shepard and his partner in bed, and Shepard discussing a tough day ahead with his man.
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Students at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT decided to get together and stage a silent protest this week due to a series of hateful gay messages occurring on the campus. The Danbury Patch reports the words “Die Dyke” were written on a dry erase board near Alyssa Kolessar’s door. She said it was the second time it had happened and she was fed up:
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Students in Utah might be having sex with each other but they will not be able to learn about safety precautions or even utter the word “homosexuality” because the state’s Senate has passed a bill which allows schools to drop sex education. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, Senate bill HB363 19-10 was favored by so many senators because they believe that sex is something that should be discussed at home and not in an educational setting. Republican state Sen. Stuart Reid said during the debate the following:
The Huffington Post is reporting that on Saturday night in Santiago, Chile, 24-year-old Daniel Zamudio was brutally beaten and put in an induced coma while being treated for severe head trauma and a broken right leg. Towleroad.com states Zamudio’s attackers struck him with blunt objects before they cut off part of his ear, carved swastikas into his abdomen, and burned other parts of his body with cigarettes.
Prosecutors spoke on Tuesday saying there was no clear evidence of neo-Nazi involvement but they were continuing to investigate. But according to Towleroad’s article, Zamudio’s mother told a local newspaper that neo-Nazi groups had previously threatened her son inside a popular Santiago nightclub.
A 17-year-old high school student from Charles County City, Virginia was told by his school officials at Charles City High School to take off the pair of high heels he was wearing or get suspended. Asante Cotman refused to adhere to putting on other shoes and was removed from the school for three days.
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