NewsWrap for the week ending Feb. 5, 2011

SUMMARY

Our Liberation Too - LGBT Egyptians, who've been specifically targeted by government oppression, join the massive anti-Mubarak protests in Cairo and other cities ...

Questionable Motives - Ugandan police claim that the suspect in the murder of David Kato bludgeoned him to death with a hammer after the high profile gay activist refused to pay him for sex, and had nothing to do with Kato's activism – an assertion sharply questioned by International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission Executive Director Cary Alan Johnson (from an interview on "GritTV with Laura Flanders") ...

Eating With the Enemy - LGBT activists demonstrate against the secretive right-wing Christian group The Family, longtime sponsors of the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., because of their ties to the promotion of homophobia in Uganda (with brief comments to Joe Sudbay of "gayamericablog.com" by protest organizer Michael Dixon of GetEQUAL) ...

But Why Can't We Hate? - Russia appeals the October 2010 European Court of Human Rights ruling that declared the bans on LGBT Pride events in Moscow illegal ...

DNR DADT - U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denies the Obama administration's motion to suspend the Log Cabin Republicans lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Don't Ask Don't Tell ...

Wings of Change - new Thai airline makes a bit of history by hiring three "katoey" flight attendants ...

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