Today's Headlines From LGBTQNation

Obama administration files brief calling DOMA ‘hostile’ toward gay couples

July 4 — The Obama Administration on Friday filed a brief in federal court reiterating its position that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, calling it hostile toward gay and lesbian couples. Read more »

Gay soldiers in Colorado attacked, beaten in possible hate crime

July 4 — A group, including two gay soldiers from Fort Carson, a United States Army installation located near Colorado Springs, were attacked in a possible hate crime early Saturday morning. Read more »

Islamic religious scholar: Gays in Islamic countries ‘must be killed’

July 4 — As the annual Toronto Pride parade worked its way through the city's LGBTQ community on Sunday, an Islamic religious scholar addressing a 9,000-strong crowd at the annual Journey of Faith Islamic conference said that, in countries governed by Islamic law, homosexuals caught in the act should be executed. Read more »

David Pakman show: Pastor Damon Thompson’s anti-gay preaching, outing exposed

July 4 — LGBTQ Nation contributor Ashton Elijah Pittman appeared on The David Pakman Show this weekend to recount his experiences in Damon Thompson’s anti-gay ministry “The Ramp.” Read more »

NOM’s Brian Brown weeps over the passage of marriage equality in New York

July 5 — From Rich Murray of the LGBT activist group Queer Rising comes this photo of National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown, reportedly weeping in the New York Senate galley following the passage of same-sex marriage on June 24.Read more »