NewsWrap for the week ending July 23, 2011

SUMMARY

Forward March - The ability of the armed forces to deal with Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal is certified, beginning a countdown that will end – as will that discriminatory U.S. military policy –- on September 20th ...

Clean-up Operation - the LGBT Log Cabin Republicans press their lawsuit against DADT to confirm its unconstitutionality ...

Offensive Against the Defensive - the first legislative step is taken on the fabled "Gay Agenda's" next repeal target as the Senate Judiciary Committee hears testimony on a bill to overturn DOMA, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act ...

Hunting Season - on the heels of Muslim and Christian clerical condemnation of homosexuality, a Ghanaian government minister calls for the arrest of anyone suspected of engaging in private adult consensual gay sex ...

Queer Con Profile Canned - in a rare official disavowal of homophobia in what many consider the most anti-queer country in the Caribbean, Jamaica's top cop, Commissioner Owen Ellington, publicly chastises a subordinate for blaming young gay men for national lottery scams ...

No Promo Anti-Homo - Lithuania's parliament bans discrimination based on sexual orientation in advertising ...

Low HIV IQ - India's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad takes heat for "backward and ignorant" comments about homosexuality and AIDS ...

Cash and Carry Over the Threshold - think tank forecasts big bucks from New York weddings ...

Always Something - Massachusetts couples remind Empire State newlyweds that their ability to marry doesn't end the fight for full equality ...

Evening the Score - Cambridge, Massachusetts becomes what's believed to be the first city in the U.S. to compensate its married lesbian and gay workers for the federal taxes they must pay for spousal health care benefits ...

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted July 25th.