NewsWrap for the week ending Oct. 23, 2010

SUMMARY

DADT Drama - Don't Ask Don't Tell drama moves from the federal district court (an injunction against its enforcement) to the Obama administration (a successful appeals court move to stay the injunction) to the Pentagon (new guidelines from Defense Secretary Robert Gates about how discharges will now be determined under the military policy forcing lesbian and gay service members to stay closeted) ...

Homicidal Headline - Ugandan newspaper splashes the names, photos and addresses of "100 of Uganda's Top Homos" on its front page with a banner reading "Hang Them!" ...

Moscow Pride Wins - European Court of Human Rights unanimously rules that the bans of Moscow Pride marches in 2006, 2007 and 2008 violated the European Convention on Human Rights ...

Prop 8 Update - the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announces that oral arguments in California's Proposition 8 case will be heard on December 6th, while the Republican candidates for California Governor and Attorney General each vow to re-engage the state in appealing the lower court ruling that the voter-approved marriage equality-banning measure is federally unconstitutional ...

Saved Our Children - Florida's 33-year-old state law banning gays and lesbians from becoming adoptive parents is now officially dead

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