NewsWrap for the week ending December 1, 2012

SUMMARY

No Kill I - A U.N. human rights committee includes sexual orientation - and for the first time gender identity – in a resolution against extrajudicial executions …

Thought You Were Human? - the Association of Southeast Asian Nations omits sexual orientation and gender identity in its human rights declaration …

Suitable Responses - a gay couple in Singapore challenges the nation-state's gross indecency law in court, while a Taiwan gay couple sues the capital city of Taipei for a marriage license …

Easily Discouraged - U.S. federal judge upholds Nevada's state ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples because opening the institution to them might reduce the number of heterosexual couples who want to get married …

Suspended Animation - there's no news as of November 30th from the U.S. Supreme Court about their disposition of Prop 8 and DOMA cases …

The Even Freer State - lesbian and gay Marylanders can begin getting marriage licenses on December 6th …

Bad Chicken Soup - the Southern Poverty Law Center sues a New Jersey-based Jewish "ex-gay therapy" business for fraud …

As-salamu Alaykum - a woman- and gay-friendly mosque opens in Paris ….

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