NewsWrap for the week ending Dec. 11, 2010

SUMMARY

EuroFinger Wag - The E.U.'s Fundamental Rights Agency provides the EuroParliament with a report outlining the disparities among member states in the protection of LGBT rights, and criticizes the Czech Republic for using "arousal tests" in gay asylum cases ...

J-FLAG at Half Mast - Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays reports that one of its members has been brutally murdered ...

Just Don't - U.S. Senate again fails to consider repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, but hope remains that it can still be passed in the waning days of the current Congressional session ...

A Few Bad Men - Ft. Worth, Texas City Attorney drops charges against two patrons of the infamous Rainbow Lounge raid who were assaulted by police and state agents, while the city of Atlanta, Georgia offers a million-dollar lawsuit settlement to several patrons of the Eagle bar who were victimized during a similar raid there ...

Spare Rod/Love Child - U.S. study reports that misbehaving LGBT youth are punished more severely than their heterosexual peers for similar offenses, while another confirms that familial acceptance is healthier for LGBT youth than rejection ...

Forget-Me-Not - Brazil's Social Security Ministry announces that the surviving spouses in same-gender relationships are entitled to the same pension benefits as their heterosexual counterparts

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