NewsWrap for the week ending Oct. 30, 2010

SUMMARY

Don't Hold Your Breath - The much-anticipated October 29th ruling from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on whether or not to extend its temporary stay of a lower court's injunction barring further enforcement of Don't Ask Don't Tell has apparently been delayed until after the November 2nd midterm elections ...

Don't Care - unprecedented Pentagon survey of military personnel and their families conducted as part of its ten-month-long study to determine how best to implement legislative repeal of the policy reportedly reveals that serving with "out" compatriots is not of much concern to the troops or their kin ...

3 of 11 Walk - charges are dropped against three young members of the Bronx Latin King Goonies street gang in the horrific gay-bashing assaults against two teens and two adults, but at least eight others face felony assault, sexual abuse and hate crime charges in what prosecutors say is an ongoing investigation ...

2 of 2 Withdraw - two Rutgers University students charged with web-casting the private gay sexual encounters of dorm-mate Tyler Clementi that led to his suicide have dropped out of school, but still face invasion of privacy charges ...

Justice Price Tag - Mississippi's Itawamba County School District is ordered to pay $81,000 in legal costs to the ACLU attorneys who successfully represented Constance McMillen in her civil rights lawsuit after she was denied the chance to bring her girlfriend to the senior promo ...

Bias Not PRI-ordained - proposed constitutional amendment to ban recognition of same-gender marriages in the Mexican state of Baja California may not be a done deal after a change of political party control in the Chamber of Deputies and in the five state municipalities that must ratify it ...

It Gets Legal - U.S. Department of Education warns federally-funded schools and colleges that the Title IX civil rights law requires them to protect LGBT students from verbal and physical abuse ...

Shut Up - Clint McCance, the school board member in Pleasant Plains, Arkansas under fire for urging gay kids to kill themselves, announces his resignation ...

Bullies Begone - secondary school in Britain's north London says it's virtually eliminated anti-LGBT bullying on campus by adding gay and lesbian history lessons to the curriculum ...

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