NewsWrap for the week ending October 22, 2011

SUMMARY

Behind Closed Doors - Northern Cyprus' former Finance Minister and two others are arrested in a private home in north Nicosia for "acts against nature" …

Unprotected Custody - Zimbabwe Prison Services denies condoms to men behind bars because gay sex is illegal …

Not Enough Better Yet - bullied 15-year-old Canadian 10th-grader Jamie Hubley becomes the latest headline-making gay teen suicide …

Uncle Sam Owes Alimony - a federal judge okays a lawsuit seeking full separation pay denied to gays & lesbians honorably discharged under "Don't Ask Don't Tell" …

More To Tell - another "DADT" lawsuit will demand equal benefits for legally-married active duty lesbian and gay service members …

All in the Family - a U.S. Senator's intervention allows a National Guard enlistee just back from duty in Kuwait to bring her civil partner to a military reintegration program for returning soldiers and their families …

Repeat Step One - lawyers hired by the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in legal challenges to its constitutionality argue in federal court that gays and lesbians "are far from politically powerless" …

Shattered Closet - a federal judge in California decides that proponents of Proposition 8 offered no proof in their attempt to stop the release of the names of people who signed petitions to qualify the marriage equality-banning ballot measure …

After the Horse Has Bolted - Washington conservative religious groups file an emergency order to stop the naming of petitioners supporting a repeal of that state's domestic partner benefits law after 30 DVDs of petition signatures had already been released …

Gold Diggers of 2011 - even the Manhattan Clerk's Office joins the economic boom that marriage equality has brought to the Empire State ….

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