NewsWrap for the week ending August 27, 2011

SUMMARY

Judging for Herself - The Inter-American Court of Human Rights hears its first LGBT-related case as Chilean judge and lesbian mother Karen Atala tries to regain custody of the three daughters taken away from her by her nation's Supreme Court ...

Still Being Ignored - hundreds march on a Johannesburg, South Africa township police station demanding official action against escalating so-called "corrective" rapes and hate crime murders of sexual minorities ...

Ugandan Two-Step - the Ugandan Cabinet and parliamentary representatives send mixed signals on the fate of the country's infamous "Kill the Gays" bill ...

Severed Hearts - authorities in the Sharia law-governed Indonesian province of Aceh annul the legal marriage of a lesbian couple and force the women to sign a separation agreement ...

The Great Debate - several members of the Australian parliament discuss their constituents' views on marriage equality, while Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who opposes opening civil marriage to same-gender couples, nevertheless meets for the first time ever with LGBT activists and supporters to discuss the issue ...

It Counts - analysis of the 2010 U.S. Census by a highly-regarded LGBT "think tank" reveals Washington, D.C. as the leading locale for the number of same-gender-couples per one thousand households, and an over-all fifty percent increase in the country during the last decade of self-identified cohabiting gay and lesbian couples; and ...

M-A-R-R-I-A-G-E - U.S. country music star Chely Wright legally marries her activist partner Lauren Blitzer – each in white gowns but sans hair-spoiling veils - at an interfaith ceremony in Connecticut ...

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted August 29th.