NewsWrap for the week ending December 3, 2011

SUMMARY

Yes and No - Delegates to the National Conference of Australia's ruling Labor Party vote to support marriage equality, but also approve allowing a conscience vote for their MPs on any marriage equality legislation, which analysts say will doom such a bill to failure …

State's Rites - a measure to create civil unions for same-gender and hetero couples wins approval in Queensland's parliament …

Paper Prejudice - the hetero-only Australian federal Marriage Act prevents the issuance of certificates required by some countries verifying that they're not already married to gay and lesbian Australians who want to wed their partners overseas, but the Labor Party's National Conference voted to support issuing Certificates of Non-Impediment to Marriage …

Jail the Gays & Their Allies - Nigeria's Senate approves legislation to criminalize same-gender unions and anyone who supports them …

They "Looked Like Women" - Cameroon sentences three more men to prison for homosexuality …

Fire Sale - applications for marriage licenses by same-gender couples surge in Spain following the landslide election victory of the center-right People's Party, which has challenged in the Constitutional Court the then-Socialist government's 2005 enactment of marriage equality …

Nyet Promo Homo - Russians resent criticism by the U.S. and the U.K. of a bill in the northwestern city of St. Petersburg that would ban so-called "homosexual propaganda" …

Less Than Paradise - some activists in the Netherlands are expressing surprise over unexpectedly-high reports of homophobic abuse in a country viewed as one of the world's most LGBT-friendly, while Gay-Straight Alliances are blossoming in Dutch schools to provide support and greater acceptance for at least half of LGBT students who say they don’t feel safe enough to be "out" …

Hot Men - the mayor of the Peruvian coastal city of Huarmey voices concern that high strontium levels in the town's water supply is making men gay ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted December 6th.