NewsWrap for the week ending March 9, 2013

SUMMARY

F-Word Bombs in Court - Mexico's Supreme Court rules that offensive homophobic words such as "maricone" and "punal" ("faggot" in English) are not constitutionally protected speech …

Colonized Sexuality - Singapore's High Court hears a second challenge to the nation-state's antiquated sodomy statute …

Domino Effect - a federal judge in Michigan delays ruling on a lesbian couple's second parent adoption case until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on California's Proposition 8 …

Unchanging Rights - transgender people win legal protections in Greece, and Transgender Equality Uganda begins its rights fights in one of the world's most hostile-to-sexual-minorities countries …

No Knock - 20 trans-women living together for mutual security are arrested in a bust-down-their-doors police raid of an allegedly unauthorized brothel in Istanbul …

Solidarity Not Forever - revered former Polish President Lech Walesa takes heat for a televised interview during which he makes homophobic statements including "a minority should not impose itself on the majority" …

Precious Bodily Fluids - Uzbek President Islam Karmiov reportedly calls homosexuality "disgusting" and a violation of his nation's "moral purity" …

Fox to Henhouse - a notoriously racist and homophobic deputy is elected by the Brazil House of Representatives to chair its Committee on Human Rights and Minorities ….

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