NewsWrap for the week ending April 16, 2011

SUMMARY

Bells Will Ring - Delaware is on the verge of becoming the eighth U.S. state to offer civil unions or domestic partnerships to same-gender couples ...

Wheels Will Spin - subcommittee of the Republican-led House of Representatives holds a hearing to "defend marriage" ...

Love Will Prevail - a bill to allow U.S. lesbians and gay men to sponsor their foreign partners for legal residency is introduced in both houses of Congress ...

Paperwork Will Abound - Liechtenstein's Parliament passes a registered partnership law that will take effect in September, while gay and lesbian couples begin registering their civil partnerships in Ireland ...

Trends Will Track - a marriage equality bill is introduced in Uruguay's Parliament ...

Blood Will Tell - British officials will reportedly lift the outright ban on gay men donating blood, but will require donors to have been celibate for at least 10 years ...

Fear Itself - Indian government minister worries that all of his country's men will someday "become gays" and a prominent Italian professor claims that gays caused the downfall of the Roman Empire ...

The Hateful Network - the Australian Defence Force is under fire for not disciplining some of its members for creating an anti-gay Facebook page and uploading a homophobic YouTube video ...

Offensive Foul Language - Los Angeles Lakers basketball superstar Kobe Bryant apologizes for his easy-to-lip-read homophobic slur during a nationally-televised game ...

They Opined With Their Socks On - right-wing commentators get their shorts in a bunch over a young boy's neon pink-painted toenails ...

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