PARKER, Colo. -- A Parker couple fears for their safety after someone spraypainted words of hate on their home and left a noose on their front door.

"It's scary," said Christel Conklin. "It's very scary."

Conklin and her partner Aimee Whitchurch aren't sure what to do about the attack, so they are on a Facebook frenzy, telling anyone and everyone of the hate against them.

"It needs to stop," said Conklin. "If it takes us being the Rosa Parks that won't get off the bus, that is what it is going to be, because we are not leaving."

NEW YORK -- More than 2,000 middle and high schools across 50 states will pledge themselves as friends of the LGBT community this week, starting today, Monday, October 17, 2011.

Ally Week is a program started by students in 2005 that went national under the direction of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN), as a way for school Gay Straight Alliances and other related clubs to recognize and encourage others to also be supportive, by taking a pledge against anti-LGBT bullying.

BOSTON -- Rainbow flags have been posted outside the open doors at Unitarian Universalist parishes for decades now, flapping against a tide of intolerance surrounding the gay and lesbian community.

But in recent years, the rainbow flag - a popular symbol of diversity and inclusiveness - has been ripped down, burned, and stolen in assaults that church leaders say are tantamount to hate crimes.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento resident Jon Green, was surprised to find out that people are still doing “the whole gay bashing thing.”

But that is exactly what police said happened early Saturday, on the corner of 18th and J streets in midtown.

"How tragic it is that two people can't walk down the street and hold hands without being attacked," added Sara Freid, executive director of the Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center.

Investigators are calling the assault a hate crime.