NewsWrap for the week ending April 27, 2013

SUMMARY

14 and Counting -  French lawmakers give final approval to a marriage and adoptions equality bill, but not without violent protests and assaults on police and gay people by its opponents …

Not the Last Word - the overwhelming rejection by Colombian lawmakers of a marriage equality proposal defies a Constitutional Court order …

Hope Fulfilled - Rhode Island has all but officially become the 10th U.S. state to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

First State Not Far Behind - a marriage equality measure passes in the Delaware House and heads to the state Senate, where activists predict passage …

DOMAster Diving - the Nevada Senate becomes the first legislative chamber in the U.S. to overturn a constitutional amendment defining marriage as exclusively heterosexual, as Senator Kelvin Atkinson of North Las Vegas comes out during floor debate …

Foul Blocking - the U.S. State Department denies permission to leading Cuban LGBT rights advocate Mariela Castro to accept an "ally" award at a civil rights summit in Philadelphia …

Singapore Sodomy Strategy - Singapore gay couple Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee announce their challenge in the Court of Appeal, the highest judicial body in the land, of an April High Court ruling upholding the city-state's sodomy law …

Magic Moment Muddied - Mongolian lawmakers discuss LGBT rights for the first time ever, but some of their comments suggest a long learning curve to liberation …

Reactionary and Proud - San Francisco Pride honors whistle-blowing gay U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, then it doesn't ….

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