NewsQueek

Apple sneaked a new product into the online Apple Store, and while it’s nothing big and exciting like a new Mac Pro, it might be something that TUAW readers who support the (PRODUCT) RED project could get into. The new product is a (PRODUCT) RED iPhone bumper (US$29.99), just perfect for your iPhone 4 or 4S. As with the rest of the bumpers, the (PRODUCT) RED bumper feature two-tone colors and metal buttons for volume and power. Plus, it protects your iPhone from scratches on the metal sides.

Source: tuaw.com

EDITOR’S NOTE: Normally Apple announcing new ads wouldn’t generally make the cut for NewsQueeks.  But..I think you’ll agree..the new ad boy is cute.  Don’t you agree?  :)

My first thought, when I saw Apple’s trio of new Mac ads that premiered during NBC’s Olympicscoverage last night: “Was it a deliberate casting choice to go with a guy who would remind us of Ferris Bueller?”

This Genius Bar stalwart — who does wear his blue shirt and badge everywhere he goes, including to bed — is called upon to help the hapless, helpless guys he encounters on a plane, on the street and at his front door at four in the morning. (Fans of the Upright Citizens Brigade will recognize improv star Matt Besser as the freaked-out father to be in the Labor Day spot.)

Source: tuaw.com

A Canadian amateur astronomer has named an asteroid he discovered after U.S. gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny, who died last year in Washington.

Kameny, who earned a doctorate in astronomy at Harvard University, was an astronomer with the U.S. Army Map Service in the 1950s but was fired from his job for being gay. He contested the firing all the way to the Supreme Court and later organized the first gay rights protests outside the White House, the Pentagon and in Philadelphia in the 1960s.

Source: MSNBC

EA has signed an amicus brief asking to appeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

Love or hate EA, you have to admit that when it comes to LGBT rights and same-sex marriages, they’ve taken a strong public position. Whether in the form of an “It Gets Better” video starring EA employees, openly celebrating Pride month, or responding to an anti-homosexual email campaign, the company has refused to back down from a position of equal civil rights for all. Now the games publisher is hoping to put the issue before the Ninth Circut Court of Appeals via an amicus brief asking that the Defense of Marriage Act be overturned as unconstitutional.

Source: escapistmagazine.com

The Courage Campaign and the super PAC American Bridge 21st Century have joined forces to produce “Mitt Gets Worse.” The multimedia campaign seeks to warn LGBT Americans about the dangers that a victory this fall by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) could pose for them and their families, as well as to provide the means for voters to push back against the Romney campaign’s message of intolerance.

American Bridge Communications Director Chris Harris told Raw Story he believes that it’s crucial for voters to understand just how virulently anti-gay a Romney administration would be.

“He’s no Massachusetts moderate,” said Harris. “He’s as far right on this issue as any candidate we’ve seen.”

The “Mitt Gets Worse” — a play on words meant to echo sex columnist and activist Dan Savage’s“It Gets Better” project — website describes the project as “an oral history of Mitt Romney’s efforts to diminish the rights and the freedoms of LGBT Americans, told by the brave people who have fought back against Mitt’s anti-equality agenda.”

Source: rawstory.com

Releasing important or controversial news on a Friday has historically been seen as a ploy to bury a story, the theory being that nobody’s going to pay much attention to it because they’re too busy watching the clock. It’s been done by Bush’s andObama’s White House, in fact.

This past Friday afternoon, ABC Family (allegedly) announced that they’re going to develop an hour-long drama series with Jennifer Lopez. But why Friday afternoon, ABC Family? A Friday afternoon on what many are taking as a long weekend, no less? Why couldn’t you wait until until after the weekend? What are you hiding from us?

Source: blogs.sfweekly.com

Political coverage, news, entertainment and education are the hallmarks of Gay Chicago TV – the creation of Jhonmar Castillo, who together with his life-partner, Ryan Witmer, founded the web-based station in 2011 to focus on the issues, events, and people, important to the city’s LGBT community.

It’s probably no surprise to anyone that the way news is delivered has, in less than a decade, suffered a seismic change, and now the Web rules supreme.

Source: examiner.com

More than half of British LGBT secondary school students report experiencing homophobic bullying, about the same as reported in a similar survey of American LGBT students.

The University of Cambridge’s Stonewall School Report shows the amount of children reporting homophobic bullying has dropped 10 percentage points, to 55%, since 2007. Fifty-three percent of the 1,614 gay youth surveyed said they have been verbally harassed at school, and 16% say they have been physically assaulted.

Source: advocate.com

The Internet has been buzzingthis weekend over a reported announcement by Google that it is launching a worldwide push to legalize same-sex marriage. However, the tech giant says its new “Legalize Love” campaign isn’t about gay marriage at all, but rather supporting workers in countries that criminalize homosexuality.

“‘Legalize Love’ is a campaign to promote safer conditions for gay and lesbian people inside and outside the office in countries with anti-gay laws on the books,” said a Google spokesperson in a statement.

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Interactive social networking website Facebook has recently launched its same-sex couple icon. With world leaders like President Barack Obama supporting same sex marriages, more and more groups have become open-minded in embracing and including this marginalized sector of society in their respective businesses and social concerns. About a few weeks ago, Apple also launched its same-sex couple and family emojis in its iOS 6 operating system. A similar support was also done by the Oreo’s Facebook page. Last week, the cookie company posted a rainbow-colored, six-layered Oreo cookie on interactive websites Twitter and Facebook.

Since same sex marriage is not honored in a lot of territories, couples can now have an avenue to profess their eternal love to their better half. In the United States, it is only legal and honored in nine states. Discrimination is still very much existing. In these states, married gay couples do not receive the same tax benefits as married heterosexual couples enjoy.

Source: business2community.com