NewsWrap for the week ending October 13, 2012

SUMMARY

Moscow Mayhem - More than 20 masked men storm into a popular Moscow gay bar using fists, bottles and caustic substances to injure at least 10 patrons, sending four to the hospital …

Something Inside So Strong - police officials force Belgrade Pride off Serbian streets and into a conference hall for a forward-looking celebration …

Liberty, Equality, Matrimony - the French government announces that its ministers will approve a marriage equality measure on October 31st …

Feds Butt In - a bill to stop the federal government from challenging state or territorial marriage equality measures fails by a wide margin in the Australian Parliament …

No Change For the Changers - a state court in Malaysia rejects a challenge by four transgender-identified Muslim men to secular and Shariah laws banning cross-dressing …

Out of the Coop - the Daily Beast tells the unique love story of Big Bird's two gay dads ….

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