NewsWrap for the week ending November 17, 2012

SUMMARY

Jail Allies, Kill Gays - Nigeria and Uganda each move closer to enacting draconian anti-LGBT legislation …

Warm Winds - lawmakers in Uruguay move to make theirs the second country in South America to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples …

Oui and Si - French government officially proposes a marriage equality bill, and Spain's Constitutional Court upholds theirs …

Nie - Slovakia's parliament rejects a proposal to recognize same-gender partnerships …

DOMA Coma - U.S. Supreme Court postpones deciding whether or not to hear Prop 8 and/or DOMA cases until the end of November …

Bicameral Legislator - Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema narrowly wins election as the first openly bisexual member of Congress …

New Jobs - Washington's Ed Murray becomes only the second "out" state Senate Majority Leader in U.S. history, and if the U.S. Senate confirms President Obama's nomination of William Thomas to a lifetime seat on the Court for the Southern District of Florida he'll become the country's first openly gay African-American federal court judge …

Childish Censorship - the ACLU sues a Utah school district for removing "In Our Mothers' House," a picture book featuring a family headed by two lesbian mothers, from the shelves of its elementary school libraries, and a school district in Austin, Texas cancels elementary school performances of "And Then Came Tango," a play based on two male penguins at a New York zoo who successfully adopted and nurtured an abandoned egg …

Gay Bird Dads Don't Duck - a pair of male penguins in Denmark joins similar couples in Spain, Germany and China to be given an orphaned egg to incubate and raise as their own ….

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