NewsWrap for the week ending April 14, 2012

SUMMARY

Hunting Season - More than a dozen "suspected homosexuals" are arrested for "indecent practices" in the west African nation of Gambia …

Let's Not Get Drunk And Screw - two men –- one from Britain and the other from the Seychelles –- are sentenced in Dubai to three years in jail for having consensual but drunken gay sex in public …

Don't Parade, Don't Promote - police in Hungary's capital of Budapest refuse to issue permits for a planned LGBT Pride march claiming that it would be impossible to redirect traffic around the chosen route, while bills are introduced in Hungary's parliament echoing similar legislation recently introduced in Russia's lower house of parliament making it a criminal offense to "promote" LGBT rights …

Eight Minus One - Russia's delegation to the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in Washington rejects language in a post-event document that included support for the humanity of sexual minorities …

Protesting Too Much - a series of studies of college students in the U.S., U.K. and Germany suggest that the most outspoken homophobes are often themselves repressed homosexuals …

Never Mind - leading U.S. psychiatrist Dr. Robert Spitzer repudiates controversial research he published in 2001 that seemed to support so-called "change therapy" …

Get Off the Bus - two groups in the U.K. who believe gay people can be turned straight are blocked by London's mayor from promoting their "ex-gay" programs in adverts on the sides of city buses …

Keep Discriminating For Now - despite mounting pressure from LGBT equality proponents, the White House tells reporters that President Obama will not be issuing an executive order "at this time" to require federal contractors to have LGBT anti-discrimination policies …

Lavender Sheep - Christine Forster, the 47-year-old sister of Australian Opposition leader Tony Abbott, comes out as lesbian, but Abbott maintains his opposition to marriage equality …

Gay Green Brown Goodbye - openly gay Greens chair and Senator Bob Brown unexpectedly announces his retirement after leading the progressive political party for the past 16 years from what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation called the "radical fringe to the center of power" ….

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