NewsWrap for the week ending Feb. 12, 2011

SUMMARY

Party Downed - As many as 200 men are arrested for "conduct against public morals" at a raid of a private alleged "gay wedding" party in Bahrain ...

Harassment in the Highlands - homophobic hate crimes soar in Scotland and seem to have also increased in London ...

Sex Law Dal - India's Supreme Court schedules a final hearing for April 19th for all nineteen submissions in a challenge to the Delhi High Court's ruling overturning the British colonial era law criminalizing private adult consensual adult same-gender sex ...

Honolulu Civil-moons Soon - Hawai'i House of Representatives passes a civil unions bill that now appears headed for the governor's promised signature ...

Survivor Embraced - Israel's Interior Ministry reverses a deportation order for the German partner of a gay man killed during the Tel Aviv LGBT Center shooting rampage ...

Bed-and-Bias Case Continues - British fundamentalist Christian bed-and-breakfast owners who lost an anti-bias case for refusing to allow a gay couple to share a bed say they're appealing the ruling ...

Diversity Drills - Pentagon releases more details about the implementation of the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, training for which may not be completed until September, while Tim Pawlenty, a probable candidate for the Republican 2012 presidential nomination, wants to have funding for that training rescinded ...

Children's Hour Flip-side - seven-year-old Los Angeles boy protests unequal treatment of gay people with charitable donations to two LGBT advocacy groups ...

Monkeys Shine - pair of love-struck male British spider monkeys named for a music superstar and his beau get a special Valentine's Day treat ...

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