NewsWrap for the week ending April 9, 2011

SUMMARY

Common Enemies - Council of Europe approved a document calling on member states to combat violence against women, with inclusive language covering sexual orientation and gender identity ...

Safety Net - European Parliament voted to adopt a series of measures to better protect LGBT asylum seekers ...

Shanghai 60 - more than 60 patrons and employees of a newly-opened gay bar in Shanghai were rounded up and held for more than 12 hours following a police raid ...

Copy That - Republican-lead U.S. House Armed Services Committee followed up on last week’s subcommittee hearings on the implementation of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal with hearings of its own ...

Broken Record - Human Rights Campaign calls a scheduled April 15th House hearing on the defense of DOMA the GOP's third anti-LGBT hearing in as many weeks ...

Working It Out - gay Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts announced that he had formally introduced ENDA – the Employment Non-Discrimination Act – in the U.S. House of Representatives, with 111 co-sponsors, including three Republicans ...

Arkansas Family Values - Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that a ballot initiative barring unmarried couples from fostering or adopting children was unconstitutional ...

Liberty & Interdependence - Delaware Senate passed a bill on to create civil unions for same-gender couples ...

To Be, Or Not To Be - Equality California, that state’s leading LGBT advocacy group, has launched a campaign to gauge community support for placing a measure to repeal Proposition 8 on the 2012 ballot ...

Bench Player - Judge Vaughn Walker, whose ruling last year that Proposition 8 violated the U.S. Constitution is currently being appealed, has acknowledged that he is, indeed, a gay man ...

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