NewsWrap for the week ending September 22, 2012

SUMMARY

Big No, Small Yeses - Australia's Parliament soundly defeats federal legislation to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples, but some states and territories forge ahead with their own marriage equality measures …

Some More Equal Than Others - some French LGBT activists call the Socialist government's marriage equality proposal less than equal …

Slow Simmer - contrary to previous predictions that the U.S. Supreme Court would consider challenges to bans on marriage equality at its September 24th conference, that now may not happen until after the November elections …

Counting Couples Before They Hatch - Statistics Canada issues what may be inflated census figures about the number of married same-gender couples in the country …

Unteaching Tolerance - Jamaica's Education Minister pulls a controversial high school Health and Family Life textbook that he says is a bit too gay-friendly …

Intermission - British theater producer David Cecil is finally released on bail in Uganda but still faces two years in prison for staging unauthorized performances in Kampala of a gay-affirming play …

Inimitable Words - "out"-spoken U.S. Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts celebrates the September 20th one-year anniversary of the official end of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow ….

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