NewsWrap for the week ending August 18, 2012

SUMMARY

Harassing While Intoxicated - Harare police raid the headquarters of Gays And Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) and detain 44 members overnight for "screening" …

Fawke the Homophobes - Anonymous hacks Ugandan government websites to demand the end of arrests and harassment of LGBT people …

Prob-ity Protest - demonstrators in Lebanon's capital of Beirut protest the arrests of 36 men at a gay movie house who were forced to undergo anal probes to determine it they'd engaged in homosexual acts …

99 1/2 Years To Go - a challenge to the 100-year ban on LGBT Pride events issued by Moscow's municipal government earlier this year appears destined for the European Court of Human Rights …

God's Will - the United Church of Canada – the country's largest Protestant denomination – elects Rev. Gary Paterson as its first openly gay moderator …

Aussie Anniversary Agitation - thousands mark the eighth anniversary of the passage of Australia's federal Marriage Amendment Bill that denies civil marriage to same-gender couples with protest marches and rallies across the country, while the premiers of South Australia and Tasmania vow to legislate their own marriage equality laws …

Spongebob Subversivepants - a Ukrainian Commission charged with protecting "public morality" warns that several animated television shows, including "Family Guy," "The Simpsons," "Futurama," and "Spongebob Squarepants" -- the latter of whom Commission "experts" identify as "gay" -- are "aimed at the destruction of the family" and will turn the country's children into "criminals and perverts" ….

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