NewsWrap for the week ending August 13, 2011

SUMMARY

The Fire This Time - London's venerable Gay's the Word bookstore is among the businesses targeted and damaged during riots that rocked Britain this week, as are "Gay Village" clubs and shops in Birmingham and Manchester ...

Check It Out - thousands celebrate Pride for the first time in Prague, despite Czech government leaders' "deviant" critiques ...

So Proudly We Sail - Dutch Defense Ministry floats its own boat for the first time in Amsterdam's unique Pride procession down one of the city's historic canals ...

Party of Five - arrests of one older white man and four young black men for "acts of sexual immorality" make headlines in Zimbabwe ...

But Can You Cure Stupid - Presbyterian Church of Ghana announces that it's opening "therapy centers" to "cure" and "rehabilitate" gays and lesbians, and the promotion of discredited "reparative therapy" to make lesbians and gay men heterosexual spreads in Europe ...

Propaganda of Heterosexualism - bill is introduced in Ukraine's parliament to make "propaganda of homosexualism" a criminal offense ...

In Spite of Himself - Chilé’s politically conservative President Sebastián Piñera formally sends a bill to Congress that would create civil unions for same-gender and heterosexual couples ...

Who Are You - U.S. anti-equality National Organization for Marriage is a two-time legal loser in its court challenges to political donor disclosure laws in Rhode Island and Maine ...

It Takes Two - first-ever same-gender second-parent adoption is approved in Slovenia ...

In for a Pound - openly lesbian Australian Finance Minister Penny Wong, who has consistently supported her Labor Party's opposition to marriage equality, announces that her longtime partner is expecting a child, due in December ...

Shotgun Wedding , Please - the gay male couple featured in a controversial condom promotion in Queensland hopes civil marriage for Australian same-gender couples becomes a reality sometime soon as they become foster parents of a 9-year-old boy ...

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted August 15th.