NewsWrap for the week ending April 30, 2011

SUMMARY

Life, Not Death - The death penalty may have been dropped from the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda, but the draconian measure still punishes same-gender sex with life in prison and may still be voted on in parliament before its session ends on May 12th ...

The Cure That Kills - lesbian activist Noxolo Nogwaza is sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in another case of so-called "corrective rape" in South Africa ...

Where Is My Assemblymember? - author Taiga Ishikawa becomes Japan's first openly gay male elected official by winning a seat on the Tokyo area Toshima Ward Assembly ...

Changing Partners - King and Spalding, the law firm hired by the U.S. House of Representatives to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), bows out, but its senior partner Paul Clement, who was its lead attorney and wants to continue that defense, resigns and brings the case to another law firm, Bancroft PLLC ...

Conflict of Love - supporters of Proposition 8 file a motion to have U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling overturning the marriage equality-banning California measure thrown out after he comes out as a partnered gay man soon after retiring ...

Discouragement in the Hope State - lesbigay activists who believed there was a good chance for passage of a marriage equality bill in Rhode Island will apparently have to settle for civil unions as a consolation prize ...

In the Best Interest - the last Roman Catholic Church adoption agency to fight having to comply with British laws requiring them to accept same-gender couples as prospective parents on an equal basis with heterosexual couples loses an important round in its exemption efforts ...

Wedding Gift Request - the U.K. Equal Love Campaign asks newlywed royals William and Kate to support same-gender marriage ...

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted May 2nd.