NewsWrap for the week ending September 10, 2011

SUMMARY

Legal Right Turn - South African President Jacob Zuma appoints Mogoena Mogoena, a judge that critics say has issued misogynistic and homophobic rulings, as Chief Justice of the nation's highest court …

Maybe Nobody Killed Her - two of nine men charged with the brutal murder of South African lesbian activist Zoliswa Nkonyana in 2006 are released for lack of evidence …

A Glimpse of Reason - Ghana's Attorney General and Justice Minister Martin Amidu bucks the predominant continental mindset when he tells a press conference that private consensual adult same-gender sex should be decriminalized …

Guess They Found Some - three men are reportedly hanged in Iran for penetrative sodomy, an unusual admission by the state-run media …

"Disorder" Order - Thai trans-women will no longer be publicly labeled "permanently insane" when they report for the military service required of all men in the country, but will still be said to have "gender identity disorder" …

The Captain and the Colonel - Argentina's armed forces okay full dress uniforms for the first same-gender military couple to be civilly wed since marriage equality became the law of the land there last year …

Fair's Fair - the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tells Arizona that it must provide the same health care benefits to the partners of its gay and lesbian state workers as it offers to heterosexual spouses …

Truck Stops - the Big Apple's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck goes "shopping" ...

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