Today's Headlines From LGBTQNation

Obama hosts LGBT leaders, champions, advocates at White House pride reception

June 29 — President Obama on Wednesday spoke to LGBT grassroots and community leaders, youth champions and advocates from around the country at a White House event observing LGBT Pride Month. Read more »

Televangelist Rick Joyner: God sent Katrina because of the gays

June 30 — Apparently, one unnamed U.S. senator has been going to televangelist whackjob Rick Joyner for advice. On one occasion, Joyner told the unnamed senator that Hurricane Katrina was God’s judgment for homosexuality, because Katrina came just before New Orleans was scheduled to have its annual gay "Southern Decadence" celebration. Read more »

Maine marriage equality advocates launch campaign to put issue on 2012 ballot

June 30 — More than 150 LGBT advocates gathered on the steps of the Lewiston, Maine, City Hall on Thursday to announce a campaign to put the issue of marriage equality back on the ballot in 2012, just three years after it was rejected by Maine voters. Read mor

Michele Bachmann’s therapist husband: gays are ‘barbarians’ who need to be ‘educated, disciplined’

June 30 — I think I may have just discovered why Michele Bachmann has such unnatural hatred and anger for gay men. Read more »

MN campaign board says finance disclosure law applies to NOM donors

June 30 — The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board on Thursday ruled that corporate donations to groups advocating for or against a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage must be disclosed. Read more »