NewsWrap for the week ending March 24, 2012

SUMMARY

Her Kids Are All Right - After her eight-year legal struggle, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights awards custody of her three children to Chilean lesbian judge Karen Atala …

Continental Regression - the European Court of Human Rights upholds French court rulings that denied a lesbian the right to become the legal co-parent of her long-time partner's daughter, and also decides that the European Convention on Human Rights does not require member states to offer civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Not That Right - Italy's Supreme Court rules that same-gender couples have the "right to a family life," but that a gay couple who legally wed in The Netherlands cannot be recognized as married in Italy …

Two Down - New Hampshire lawmakers soundly defeat an effort to repeal the U.S. state's two-year-old marriage equality law, while a bill to constitutionally ban civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples is killed in the Pennsylvania legislature …

Not This 1 - U.S. President Barack Obama and North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue each announce their opposition to Amendment 1, a May 8th state ballot measure to constitutionally ban same-gender unions …

Exes Say Aye - Minnesotan Walter Mondale, former Vice President and 1984 Democratic presidential candidate, speaks out against a similar constitutional amendment to be voted on in his state this November, while former President Jimmy Carter endorses civil marriage equality, echoing a previous announcement by former President Bill Clinton …

Tongues Untied - Utah Governor Gary Herbert unexpectedly vetoes a bill that would have banned any discussion of sexual orientation or contraception in the state's public schools …

Somewhere My Love - Omar Sharif, Jr., the grandson of the famed Egyptian actor, worries about his native country's political future since the so-called "Arab Spring" and comes out as a half-Jewish gay man in the April issue of The Advocate ….

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