NewsWrap for the week ending Mar. 26, 2011

SUMMARY

Double Dare - United Nations Human Rights Council declares support for LGBT rights and calls for member states to remove criminal statutes based on sexual orientation and gender identity ...

Inter-American Way - U.S. President Barack Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff call for the establishment of a "Special Rapporteur" at the Organization of American States to promote and protect the rights of LGBT people ...

Bait & Switch - President Yoweri Museveni would like Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill to fade away, but its provisions may reappear under the Sexual Offences Bill ...

New Haven - Canada's Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Department has a plan to aid LGBT refugees fleeing persecution ...

No Exit - for the first time since the Obama Administration announced that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, a binational same-gender couple wins a suspension of deportation proceedings ...

Life in the Slow Lane - Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denies a motion to lift the ban on marriage equality while litigation over Proposition 8 continues ...

Marching Orders - as the demise of Don't Ask, Don't Tell continues, Servicemembers United tallies the casualties, chaplains get trained, and activists meet with Pentagon officials to discuss the implementation of repeal ...

"Cure" App Cured - torrent of outrage lets Apple know that there really isn't an app for that.

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