NewsWrap for the week ending July 9, 2011

SUMMARY

DOMA-Defying Actions - U.S. Justice Department pro-actively joins the legal challenge to DOMA, arguing that the so-called Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, and also announces that it will no longer oppose joint bankruptcy filings by legally united same-gender couples ...

Don't Dally, Don't Stall - 3-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifts its stay of a lower court ruling declaring Don't Ask Don't Tell to be unconstitutional and ordering an end to its enforcement, while House Republicans add new amendments to the 2012 defense authorization bill designed to obstruct im minent legislative repeal of the policy ...

Euro Inventory - Council of Europe issues its first social-legal report on anti-LGBT discrimination among its 47 member countries with recommendations for ensuring full equality ...

Liberation Contagion - Pride marches on in London, Lima, and Toronto, and is controversially celebrated at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad ...

Attack of Affection - 74-year-old straight but not narrow Pride-watcher in North Carolina is charged with misdemeanor assault for planting a kiss on the cheek of a protesting preacher ...

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