NewsWrap for the week ending November 10, 2012

SUMMARY

Chapter Two - LGBT rights supporters celebrate historic victories in this week's U.S. elections, including a second term win by "Ally in Chief" President Barack Obama …

Dyke on the Hill - Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin becomes the first open lesbian or gay person elected to the U.S. Senate …

Bad Pennies - Congressional homophobes Bachmann and Foxx are re-elected ..

Choosing to Discriminate - voters in Salina and Hutchinson, Kansas rescind anti-bias ordinances passed by their respective city councils …

Court of Public Opinion - Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins survives efforts to have him removed from the bench for supporting marriage equality …

Grand Slam - Maine voters re-open civil marriage to same-gender couples, voters in Maryland and Washington each affirm the marriage equality votes of their respective state legislatures, and Minnesotans reject a proposal to constitutionally ban same-gender marriage …

Like Wildfire - more than a hundred "out" LGBT candidates win state and local elections across the country and nearly double their number on Capitol Hill …

Empire Stakes - one of the four Republican Senators who voted for marriage equality in New York last year is re-elected, another did not seek re-election, the third lost his primary election, and the fourth loses to a Democrat …

Happy Ending - "Big Brother Australia" winner Benjamin Norris proposes to his boyfriend on national television ….

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