NewsWrap for the week ending Oct. 16, 2010

SUMMARY

DADT Injunction Challenged - The Obama Justice Department moves to block a California federal judge's injunction that would bar enforcement of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" two days after it was issued, and the Pentagon clarifies an initially confusing situation for lesbigay service members ...

"Fierce Advocate" Strikes Again - Obama Justice Department also files notices of appeal of two rulings in a Massachusetts federal court that DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional ...

Belgrade 'Phobes Riot - hundreds of rampaging homophobes battle police in Serbia's capital of Belgrade in a failed attempt to attack the first LGBT Pride march in the city in nine years ...

Bronx Brutality - eleven Bronx gang members are charged with felony assault, sexual abuse and hate crimes for brutally beating two teens and an adult whom they perceived to be gay ...

Another Dead Teenager - in Norman, Oklahoma, 19-year-old Zach Harrington becomes at least the tenth U.S. teen reported to have committed suicide in the last month because of homophobic abuse ...

Hall of Shame - Family Research Council President Tony Perkins blames the suicides on the LGBT equality movement ...

Streaming Sanity - "It Gets Better" video project that assures queer teens that life really does improve after high school finds a new online home after it outgrows its YouTube channel ...

Essential Progress - Essence.com, the online version of the venerable African-American women's magazine, features a lesbian couple for the first time in its "Bridal Bliss" section ...

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