Sunday, April 25, 2010

Puerto Rico Police Search For Killer Of Transgendered Woman, Research Shows Gays Bullied In Youth Develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, David Beckham And Tom Brady Take Their Boys Out, Zachary Quinto Reads Love, Alexander Skarsgard, Chris Egan

In Puerto Rico, police are searching for the killer of a transgendered woman, 31 year old Ashley Santiago Ocasio, whose badly beaten, naked body was discovered in her home last week. Activists are pressuring the police to consider the murder a hate crime. Ocasio was shot in the head, her car missing, but no indication that her home had been broken into. There appeared to an excessive amount of violence, so much blood covering the walls and floors that authorities initially thought she had been repeatedly stabbed. According to Pedro Julio Serrano, a spokesperson for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said that this incident is the fifth in the last five months where police could have enforced the hate crime statue that covers crimes committed motivated by sexual orientation or gender identity, but has not been charged. “The law,” said Serrano, is very clear and we’re asking authorities to investigate without prejudice.” The hate crime law came into effect in 2002. An autopsy has yet to be completed, and police have no suspects.

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Children’s Hospital have released a pioneering study that shows gay individuals are far more likely to be tormented as children, which often leads to years of post-traumatic stress disorder. The researchers are hopeful that the study will help raise awareness of parents, teachers, and health-care providers, and especially lawmakers in the United States who are attempting to formalize an anti-bullying bill.

An almost holy confluence of Hall of Fame DILFs in Los Angeles Saturday – David Beckham and Tom Brady spotted alongside their offspring – the Beckham boys Brooklyn, Cruz, and Romeo, and Brady’s son with Bridget Moynahan, John Edward Thomas, now nicknamed JET.

Last week, Zachary Quinto was among the actors who performed at Love, an evening of short plays on love, the evening a benefit for WET Productions, a non-profit group that supports the empowerment of girls and women by producing media that challenges popularly held female stereotypes and that also acts as an advocate for equality.

Beautiful, dreamy Alexander Skarsgard spotted at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Metropia, a much delayed film that has garnered a good deal of buzz.

Metropia' premiere 2010 Tribeca Film Festival

The equally dreamy Chris Egan spotted at the same film festival, there attending the premiere of Letters to Juliet.

Premiere Of Letters To Juliet At The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival

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