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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

NewsWrap for the week ending April 23, 2011

SUMMARY

Con Game - Hungary's new constitution bans marriage equality and omits sexual orientation and gender identity anti-bias protections ...

Justices Have a Headache - Supreme Court of India defers until an unspecified date hearing petitions challenging the Delhi High Court's ruling decriminalizing same-gender sex ...

Boys Won't Be Boys - 66 teenage boys in Malaysia identified by their teachers as effeminate are sent to a "butch it up" camp ...

Home Security - new report in the U.S. confirms that lesbigay kids who live in queer-accepting areas are less likely to attempt suicide than those who live in more conservative less-affirming locales ...

15 Candles - Dharun Ravi, whose secret webcasting of his Rutgers University roommate Tyler Clementi having sex with another man led to Clementi committing suicide, is indicted on 15 criminal counts including commission of a hate crime, invasion of privacy and witness tampering ...

Familia Interuptus - Virginia's Board of Social Services votes against opening adoptions in the state to same-gender couples ...

Truth Marching On - new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows a continued trend toward majority acceptance in the U.S. of civil marriage equality ...

Your Tax Dollars At Work - Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives authorizes spending up to $500,000 on a high-profile attorney to defend DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, in federal court ...

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