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Laura Ann Carleton, 66, was shot and killed on Friday outside her clothing store in Lake Arrowhead, California San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said that Travis Ikeguchi yelled 'many homophobic slurs' at Carleton, and was enraged at her LGBTQ flag Ikeguchi was shot and killed by police on Friday, shortly after murdering Carleton, authorities said on Monday SNIP

Southern pride. In the heated debate surrounding the Confederate Flag, the defense offered by many has been that the symbol isn't representative of a culture built on slavery and racism but is, instead, a banner representing that Southerners are simply proud of their home, their people and their culture. "What other symbol immediately lets the world know you are from the South?" they argue. To tackle the problem, Studio 360, a national public radio program, commissioned a Texas-based design firm to design a new flag to represent the modern South. With a diverse team of designers with ties to both...

Two members of the Pipes and Drums of the Black Devils, dressed in kilts, walked slowly on the lawn at Fort Harrison and played the bagpipes they would be using in a ceremony. Their music greeted those who arrived to see members of the First Special Service Force present Fort Harrison, where they prepared for combat 73 years ago, with a replica of the Congressional Gold Medal their unit earned. Their unit was unique. It was made up of American and Canadian soldiers. The First Special Service Force gave birth to subsequent special operations forces in the two countries.

In 2002, the Devil’s Brigade marched on Helena and posted colors at Memorial Park. Surviving members of the World War II fighting force shared stories of landing in Italy, liberating Rome and defeating well-placed German artillery guns. Now, 11 years after their last big ceremony, the nation’s first special operations force may get its day in glory, as a bill to award the Devil’s Brigade the Congressional Gold Medal inches forward in Washington, D.C.

Both men wanted a race war. Both men committed murder in an attempt to spark it. But both men’s stories are treated very differently by the media.The world is shocked by the killing of 24-year-old reporter Alison Parker and 27-year-old cameraman Adam Ward, of small Virginia station WDBJ (a CBS affiliate), by disgruntled and disturbed ex-co-worker Vester Lee Flanagan II, who not incidentally is homosexual. By interrupting a live TV interview and committing his act on air, Flanagan, 41, got the attention he apparently craved and gave the world something unforgettable: real-life murder appearing movie-style, in deadly living color. And...

The mayor of Moscow has vowed to push for a ban on the gay flag, and God bless him for this. According to one Russian report: A Moscow city MP has promised to press for the ban on the most known symbol of the LGBT community after the campaign of support of the US move to legalize same-sex marriage has hit Russian social networks, drawing ire from conservatives. Aleksey Lisovenko made this pledge via a Facebook post and in the same post he claimed that “the United States must have gone completely mad and now its gay delirium is threatening...

Last week, millions of Facebook users gave their profile pictures a rainbow makeover to celebrate the double Pride/Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling but an unpleasant backlash has begun. The translucent rainbow tool was laid on by Facebook itself, but a number of third-party apps are now offering an American flag equivalent to people opposed to gay marriage and equality in general.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say most, if not all of them, will say it's hate speech and should be prosecuted as a hate crime. At a minimum they will say it's offensive and should not be done.

This evening I was watching NBC Nightly News (it was not my choice, mind you) and they ran a human interest story on a group called "Watch D.O.G.S" with the last part being an acronym for 'Dads of Great Students'. The piece was shot at the Maryville Elementary School in Louisville, Kentucky. It was a nice story but in one scene I about spit out my coffee when I saw a GAY FLAG hanging in the elementary school classroom! I stopped the video with my recorder and got my camera and took a couple pictures because I knew this was...

The USA TV network just ran a commerical for Chrysler cars. Variety seemed to be the theme of this ad. A wide assortment of models was shown, as well as a variety of different ethnic types and groupings. Toward the end, a young family was shown loading items in the back of a mini-van, and I believe it was the young mother who was shown holding a bright multi-colored kite that clearly seemed to reproduce the gay pride flag, as below:Some might say this would make no sense, since the kite was shown in the context of a clearly heterosexual...

Students try to burn gay-themed flag Mon Apr 15, 7:26 PM ET Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network SUMMARY: Three students at the University of Idaho face a criminal investigation and a school penalty for stealing and attempting to burn a rainbow-colored flag owned by the school's gay-straight alliance. Three students at the University of Idaho face a criminal investigation and a school penalty for stealing and attempting to burn a rainbow-colored flag owned by the school's gay-straight alliance (GSA). The students, freshman Matt Henman and sophomores Kevin Smith and Joel Sturgill, admitted their actions to police, and they have since resigned...