NewsWrap for the week ending September 15, 2012

SUMMARY

Fade to Oppression - The British producer of a gay-affirming play in Uganda is arrested and jailed for defying a government ban on its performance …

Anti-Semitic Homophobia - a state-run Iranian newspaper claims to have uncovered a Jewish-led global conspiracy, aided by the U.S. and Britain, to spread homosexuality around the world …

Learning Disabilities - Malaysia's Department of Education approves seminars for teachers and parents on how to spot gay or lesbian children …

Beauty and the Beast - the principal at a Beaumont, Texas adult school cancels a cosmetology program because he thinks one of its new students is gay …

Before It's Too Late - the attorneys general of three northeastern U.S. states, 145 Democratic members of Congress, the Department of Justice and others urge the U.S. Supreme Court to expedite 83-year-old lesbian widower Edie Windsor's constitutional challenge to DOMA …

The Da Vinci Load - the Pope stars in a gay porn video ….

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