Huffington Magazine Issue 52 | Page 9

Enter 5 POINTERS ‘CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE TO COME FORWARD’ This week marked the two-year anniversary of the disappearance of Indiana University student Lauren Spierer — and yet the police seem to be no closer to solving the case. Spierer mysteriously disappeared on June 3, 2011, after she was last seen at 4:30 a.m. “There’s a sense that some day, some week things will change for us,” her dad, Robert, told the Herald-Times. “That someone will have the strength, the crisis of conscience to come forward.” FROM TOP: AP PHOTO/MICHAEL CONROY; ADVANCES PRESS 6 ‘MAKING MY SOUL COMPLETE AND HAPPY’ THAT’S VIRAL WARNING: THIS WILL INDUCE TEARS HUFFINGTON 06.09.13 Kristen Beck, who served as a Navy SEAL for 13 deployments, revealed in a new memoir that she is transgender. Beck remained closeted while fighting in Afghanistan because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but she is now telling her story. “I do not believe a soul has a gender, but my new path is making my soul complete and happy,” Beck writes. “I hope my journey sheds some light on the human experience and most importantly helps heal the ‘socio-religious dogma’ of a purely binary gender.” A selection of the week’s most talked-about stories. HEADLINES TO VIEW FULL STORIES ORAL SEX, THROAT CANCER AND MICHAEL DOUGLAS STUCK IN THE MIDDLE ... FOREVER GAY COUPLE NAMED HIGH SCHOOL’S CUTEST PAIR POLICE DOG PAYS RESPECTS TO A FALLEN PARTNER