NewsWrap for the week ending October 6, 2012
SUMMARY
"No Promo Homo" Rebound - Ukraine's Parliament gives initial approval to a bill banning "gay propaganda," while Russia's Supreme Court upholds a similar measure but says it doesn't apply to public LGBT events like Pride marches …
No Luck - Northern Ireland's Stormont Assembly turns down a marriage equality proposal …
Equal Burping - same-gender co-parents in Australia get equal baby care leave benefits …
Hatred Extension - Malawi's President Joyce Banda admits that she can't keep her promise to repeal anti-gay sex laws …
Quackery Extension - rightwing lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of California's first-in-the-U.S. ban on so-called "reparative therapy" for anyone under 18 may keep it from taking effect on January 1st …
Clean Slate - some 16,000 men in the U.K. who were convicted of engaging in consensual gay sex before it was decriminalized may now have their "sex offender" police records expunged …
Closet KO'd - "proud gay Puerto Rican" boxer Orlando Cruz makes professional pugilistic history ….
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Labels: Australia, bisexual, gay, lesbian, marriage equality, Northern Ireland, Orlando Cruz, transgender, transsexual, Ukraine
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