NewsWrap for the week ending May 5, 2012

SUMMARY

Barking Watchdog - Kenya's National Human Rights Commission urges the decriminalization of same-gender sex and prostitution …

Let Them Eat Grass - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh renews his vitriolic condemnation of gay people …

Russian Rainbow Retort - seventeen LGBT activists and their supporters who waved rainbow flags or sported rainbow suspenders or pins are singled out by police and arrested at a May Day march and rally in St. Petersburg organized by Russia's political opposition movement, while prominent activist Nikolai Alekseev is the first person to be convicted of violating that city's recently enacted law banning "gay propaganda" …

Don't Say Vote - the sponsor of Tennessee's so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill to ban any discussion of sexual orientation in public schools decides to withdraw his proposal after state education officials assure him that the subject will not be broached, and he recognizes that "some people... didn't want to vote on it" …

He Showed Them - Missouri Republican lawmaker Zach Wyatt comes out as a gay man as he comes out against a "Don't Say Gay" bill recently introduced in his state …

The Biased Life - Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning issues an opinion that local governments can't adopt ordinances to protect LGBT people from discrimination because state law fails to do so …

Madness in Their Methodism - delegates to the quadrennial General Conference of the United Methodist Church soundly reject a proposal to change the denomination's doctrine that same-gender sexual relationships are "incompatible with Christian teaching" …

Sinking to Their Level - there's controversy in Copenhagen over a gay bar owner's decision to ban heterosexuals from kissing in his establishment ….

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