NewsWrap for the week ending April 2, 2011

SUMMARY

All Systems Go - Pentagon officials disappoint right-wing GOP Congressmen by testifying at a House Armed Services subcommittee that training for the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is going "extremely well," is costing less than expected, and that open gays and lesbians could be serving in the U.S. military by the end of August ...

Pork Chop Hill Revisited - South Korea's Constitutional Court upholds a law punishing anyone in the country's military with up to a year behind bars for engaging in homosexual conduct ...

Un-acquired Information Deficiency Syndrome - major new study in the U.S. reveals that little data exists about specific health issues unique to LGBT people, and that more research needs to be done ...

Early Admissions - U.K.'s Equality and Human Rights Commission wants to survey children as young as age 11 about their sexual orientation and gender identity ...

Bordering on Dispair - hopes of bi-national couples in the U.S. for more equitable treatment are encouraged and then dashed by federal government officials in the course of three days ...

Looking in the "I's" - Indiana takes a step toward putting a ban on same-gender marriages and civil partnerships in the state constitution, but a constitutional marriage ban bill is apparently dead in Illinois ...

Plus and Minus - civil unions bill advances in Delaware, but is killed in Colorado ...

Come As You Are - Washington is poised to recognize the marriages and domestic partnerships of same-gender couples legally contracted elsewhere ...

Sorry, Chicken Little - "the sky does not fall in" as a law takes effect in the Australian state of Tasmania to recognize the marriages and civil unions of lesbian and gay couples contracted in other jurisdictions ...

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