NewsWrap for the week ending August 20, 2011

SUMMARY

Another Crack in the DOMA - The Obama administration announces a new immigration policy that could end deportation threats hanging over the heads of foreign national gays and lesbians in the U.S. illegally who are in same-gender unions with American citizens ...

Nick of Time - Robert Segwanyi, a Ugandan gay man seeking asylum in the U.K., gets a last-minute reprieve from being sent back to his notoriously homophobic homeland ...

The Elephants in the Room - hundreds of LGBT people make history in Narayanghat, a primarily rural area of Nepal, with a first-ever rights demonstration outside the cosmopolitan capital of Katmandu ...

Venceremos - a transgender woman who underwent Cuba's first state-sanctioned gender-reassignment surgery legally marries a gay man in what is a political as well as a celebratory ceremony in Havana ...

The Real Thing - Mexico City marks the 1,000th same-gender civil marriage since they became legal in the capital ...

Brand X - only nine gay and lesbian couples registered their civil partnerships in July, the first month they were offered in the U.S. state of Rhode Island ...

Bull By the Horns - LGBT activists in Maine launch a petition drive to qualify a marriage equality initiative for the state's November 2012 ballot, while Oregon advocates ponder a similar effort ...

Promise Kept, Vows Taken - Vermont's Peter Shumlin becomes the first sitting U.S. governor to officiate at a same-gender wedding as he fulfills a campaign promise he made to a lesbian couple last year ....

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