NewsWrap for the week ending June 2, 2012

SUMMARY

Turn the Other Cheek - Russian Orthodox Church fundamentalists attack peaceful Pride-seeking LGBT demonstrators in Moscow …

Nice Try - St. Petersburg judge rules that city officials can not ban public LGBT events before they happen as violations of the recently-enacted "gay propaganda" law …

Dunkin' DOMA - in the first U.S. federal appeals court level ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a unanimous 3-judge panel of the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston declares the measure unconstitutional …

Do Dads - the Supreme Court in the Australian state of New South Wales approves listing a gay male couple as the two parents on the birth certificate of a child born to them through surrogacy …

Third Wave - Nepal's government announces that it will soon allow transgender citizens to choose "other" rather than just "male" or "female" on official I.D. cards …

Thai'd for First - Yonlada Suanyos becomes Thailand's first openly transgender elected official …

No Offense - a New York state appeals court judge, citing a "tremendous evolution of social attitudes," rules that being falsely identified as gay no longer constitutes slander …

Not Everybody Is - fellow "Teletubby" finally refutes the late Rev. Jerry Falwell's infamous claim that the purple "magic bag" carrying "Tinky Winky" was gay ….

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