NewsWrap for the week ending October 1, 2011

SUMMARY

Fashionably Draconian - Nigeria's Senate supports legislation to criminalize marriages of gay and lesbian couples and also jail anyone who actively supports such ceremonies …

The Family That Gays Together - the U.K.'s Office of National Statistics reports that couples in same-gender civil partnerships stay together more than couples in heterosexual marriages …

Love Abounds - the number of lesbian and gay Americans telling the decennial 2010 U.S. Census that they're living with a same-gender partner jumps by more than 80 percent since the last Census in 2000 …

Hit Pause - a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stops the scheduled September 30th release of video recordings of last year's Proposition 8 trial …

T's Not Crossed - another Ninth Circuit three-judge panel "disappears" last year's district court judge's ruling calling Don't Ask Don't Tell unconstitutional, saying that with repeal the issue is now moot …

"Father Mulchahy" Unleashed - the Pentagon issues a memo allowing military chaplains to officiate at same-gender weddings in states where they're legal, even on military bases …

Shame Strategy - Italy is a-buzz over the online "outing" by U.S. bloggers of ten conservative lawmakers and ministers in the homophobic administration of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, all of whom have anti-gay voting records ….

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