NewsWrap for the week ending Nov. 6, 2010

SUMMARY

Turnout Tops in Taipei - At least 30,000 celebrants make this year's Pride march in Taipei, Taiwan the largest such event ever held in Asia ...

Russian Religious Backlash - about a thousand religious fundamentalists in Moscow protest the EuroCourt ruling that Russian cities must allow Pride events and other peaceful public demonstrations by LGBT people ...

Paper Hanging - Kampala court reportedly shuts down the tabloid that had twice published the names, photos and home addresses of "Uganda's Top Homos" with the banner headline "Hang Them!" ...

Cameroon Repression - four human rights groups report that sexual minorities in Cameroon are increasingly being targeted by state-sanctioned abuse and violence, which a government minister denies ...

Africa Unite - several senior African leaders call for the decriminalization of gay sex to fight HIV/AIDS on the continent ...

Do Stay, Don't Go - U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals extends its stay of an injunction that had ordered the end of Don't Ask Don't Tell enforcement, but there have reportedly been no discharges under the policy since an October 21st order by Defense Secretary Robert Gates severely limiting how they are handled ...

NOM-skulls v. Iowa Justice - massively-funded campaign by the homophobic National Organization for Marriage convinces Iowa voters to fire three state Supreme Court justices who were part of last year's unanimous ruling legalizing same-gender weddings ...

DemoGay Wins - while other U.S. midterm election results propel the Republican Party to control of the U.S. House of Representatives, its three "out" Democrats -- Barney Frank, Tammy Baldwin and Jared Polis -- win reelection and are joined by newly-elected openly gay Congressman David Cicilline ...

Dancing With The Lesbian - lesbian sportscaster Gili Shem-Tov makes her own history by pairing with a heterosexual female partner on Israel's version of the popular TV competition "Dancing With The Stars" ...

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