NewsWrap for the week ending August 6, 2011

SUMMARY

The Kampala Job - Burglars break into and vandalize the office of Freedom and Roam Uganda, one of that notoriously homophobic nation's leading LGBT advocacy organizations, stealing computers, other valuable equipment, and the group's membership lists ...

Past Makes the Future - openly gay Irish Senator David Norris is forced to end his campaign for the presidency, which polls had him winning, after a controversy involving his former partner from 25 years ago makes headlines ...

2 By 2 - in a national first, the next Australian census will count same-gender couples who've married overseas (although they can't marry in their home country) ...

Psych Eval - the American Psychological Association, the world's largest such organization, strongly resolves to support marriage equality ...

Reserving the Right - Washington state's Suquamish Tribal Council extends marriage rights to its lesbian and gay members (although they’ll only be recognized on the reservation) ...

Sick Call - U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports an alarming increase in HIV infections among young African-American men who have sex with men ...

Blissful Ignorance - anti-gay forces get the green light to circulate petitions for a proposed ballot measure to overturn California's new law requiring public schools to teach about the contributions of LGBT and physically-challenged people to state and national history ...

Dolly Is So ... - U.S. country music megastar Dolly Parton apologizes to a lesbian couple who were hassled entering her Tennessee theme park, Dollywood, because one of them wore a T-shirt proclaiming "Marriage is so gay" ...

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