Apple Adds Then Deletes Anti-Gay Marriage Application, British Police Arrest Almost 150 In Anti-Hate Crime Raids, British Nobleman Complains That Gay Public Sex Continues On Property Unabated, Two American Lesbians Clubs Become All-Inclusive, Taylor Lautner Thanksgiving Sighting

Apple added, and then deleted an application from the Manhattan Declaration, a mobile version of the anti-gay marriage manifesto released in 2009 by a coalition of Christians, including Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, recently deemed an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the approval of the application by Apple Inc. first reported by the Huffington Post. The free application included the 4,700 word document that asked users to sign in support, as well as four-question survey, that included the question “Do you support same-sex relationships?” If answered yes, the user was informed that they had replied incorrectly.

The BBC reports that an estimated 147 individuals were arrested in Britain Thursday in dawn hate crime raids, suspects taken in custody for charges ranging from domestic violence, common assault, and breach of court orders. The project was a part of the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Athena and took place on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and although focusing on violence against women, the raids also targeted suspected homophobic, racist, and disability motivated crime, as well as crimes committed against the vulnerable or elderly.

A Conservative nobleman, Sir Beville Stanier has requested that police increase patrol on his 2,00 acre Shotover Estate, near Oxford, claiming he has been plagued by gay men using the land a site for sex, Stanier telling the Oxford Times that he cleared rubbish and undergrowth at his own expense, but that that has yet to discourage ‘cottaging.” He is asking the Oxfordshire County Council to erect “a decent bit of fencing,” and for an increased police presence. A council spokesperson said it is not the responsibility of taxpayers to protect privately owned land. While the men may be guilty of trespassing, there are not laws in England that specifically prohibit public sex.

The story of two former lesbian establishments rebranding and reopening as all inclusive destinations, each saying that the economic realities forced the changes, the Miami Herald reporting on Key West’s Pearl’s Rainbow, recently honoured by Curve magazine as the American guesthouse that has had the greatest impact on lesbian culture over the last 20 years, the lesbian-exclusive resort now “all welcome.” According to Heather Carruthers, the openly gay owner, the decision was based on business, and on changing attitudes of acceptance. “They can hold hands wherever they want to,” she said. “It’s really the world we want to have. We don’t necessarily want to be segregated.” The Oregonian, meanwhile, reports on the Portland, Oregon lesbian club the Egyptian Club, now renamed the Weird Bar, owner Kim Davis saying she chose the name because of the bar’s odd, winding layout, and for herself. She says that when the club opened in 1995, people threw eggs at the building and women bouncers were assaulted, Davis saying “We went through a lot back then, but it is different now. I want to accept everybody.” That welcoming, she says, extends to straight men, who were unwelcomed in the past. “The lesbians really took ownership of it,” she says. “If a straight guy walked in here, they would say, ‘What are you doing here?’ I don’t want the negativity.”

Taylor Lautner and co-star Booboo Stewart spotted Thursday returning to Los Angeles after filming Twilight: Breaking Dawn in New Orleans.