NewsWrap for the week ending Jan. 29, 2011

SUMMARY

Murder Most Foul - Leading Uganda gay activist David Kato is brutally murdered in his home in what police call a robbery but what LGBT rights advocates worry may have been a homophobic hate-motivated killing ...

Escape from Kampala - expatriate Uganda lesbian Brenda Namiggade wins an 11th hour court-ordered reprieve from being deported from the U.K. ...

Alice Does Live Here - official government condemnation and physical harassment increase against leading Cameroon activist Alice Nkom and her Association for the Defense of Homosexuality after the E.U. awards the group a grant for "support and training for sexual minorities" ...

The French Disconnection - France's Constitutional Court rules against a lesbian couple seeking marriage rights ...

Back to the Past - effort to repeal Iowa's marriage equality law stalls in the state Senate, but Wyoming lawmakers vote to deny state recognition to same-gender marriages or civil unions legally contracted elsewhere ...

As Good As Married - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is expected sign a civil unions bill in the coming week, while a new civil unions bill in Hawai'i, unlike previous efforts, has the support of the governor ...

The Bigger Sky - six Montana same-gender couples sue for rights equal to marriage ...

The Education of Faeries - Italy's first accredited university gay studies course counters ignorance ...

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