Ted Kennedy Remembered as LGBT Hero

When Sen. Ted Kennedy's death was reported, the leader of the Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solmonese, said we mourned the loss of the nation's "greatest champion and strongest voice for justice, fairness, and compassion."

"There was no greater hero for advocates of LGBT equality than Sen. Ted Kennedy," Solmonese reflected. "From the early days of the AIDS epidemic to our current struggle for marriage equality, he has been our protector, our leader, our friend. He has been the core of the unfinished quest for civil rights in this country, and there is now a very painful void."

Senator Kennedy hailed from a famously influential family. Two of his brothers, President John F. Kennedy and onetime attorney-general and presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy, were tragically assassinated, in 1963 in and 1968, respectively. Years earlier he lost his oldest brother, Joe, who was killed in action during World War II.

MIT Researches Facebook Gaydar

Wanna find out if he's gay? There's an app for that.
Internet mavens are excited about some breakthrough social networking research, fresh out of the minds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So what's the technology that's garnering the extra attention? An apparently proven gaydar application.
Yep, with Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree's new software, an examination of 947 profiles correctly "identified all 10 of 10 men the students knew to be gay, but who had not declared so on Facebook, according to a summary in The Boston Globe," reports Gawker.com. The researchers say their goal was to uncover what social networking users are unknowingly telling about themselves in this new age of oversharing and online friending.

Hate Crimes: Facebook Support for Victim Jake Raynard and Judy Shepard Fights On

Jake Raynard was the victim of a brutal attack over Labor Day weekend in his hometown of Thunder Bay, in Canada’s Ontario province. Raynard is recovering in a hospital after being beaten with a brick by a group of men. His sister, Jackii Raynard, has no doubt that "what happened that night was a hate crime. They broke the whole left side of his face. His face speaks for itself."
Raynard and two friends were confronted by an aggressive man early Saturday morning outside a bar. When they tried to walk away, Raynard and his friends were followed by a group of men shouting derogatory comments about gays.