NewsWrap for the week ending March 16, 2013

SUMMARY

Chill the Champagne - The second time is one charm away from marriage equality in New Zealand …

Like Before The Others Came - upstate Michigan Native American tribe becomes the third in America to marry same-gender couples …

Nearing the Summit - civil unions for lesbian and gay couples are all but a done deal in Colorado …

Tossing the Leftovers - federal appeals court overturns Virginia's sodomy statute citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision ruling that state's law to be unconstitutional …

Nonprofit Orientation Cured - U.S. Internal Revenue Service revokes the tax-exempt status of the gay "cure"-peddling National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) because the group had failed to submit required tax forms for three years …

Half-Hearted Wave - much anticipated speech on human rights by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II that activists expected to be LGBT-inclusive buries them instead in "other grounds" …

Keep It Down - holy landlords! Italy's biggest gay sauna shares space with priestly housing …

Two Peas in a Priory - "meet the new Pope, same as the old Pope" ….

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