NewsWrap for the week ending June 22, 2013

SUMMARY

Thumbs Down Under - Australia's Senate soundly rejects a proposal to recognize the legal marriages of same-gender couples performed overseas, and South Australia lawmakers are likely to reject a state marriage equality bill …

Tightening the Noose - Russia's Duma bans adoptions by unmarried foreign same-gender couples, and a staggering fine could crush Coming Out St. Petersburg, the city's leading LGBT advocacy group …

Eastern Stars - Pride parades peacefully in Ljubljana and Zagreb, while an anti-gay assault on Poland's only "out" legislator mars an otherwise pleasant Pride day in Warsaw …

Pride in Context - political turmoil in Turkey threatens Istanbul Pride, while activists in Sofia bow to official concerns about violence and cancel their march …

Shanghai Five - this year's 5th annual Shanghai Pride Festival – even without a parade – is "bigger and better" than ever …

Who's Crazy Now? - Brazilian Congress' oxymoronically named Human Rights Committee votes to reinstate the definition of homosexuality as a treatable disorder or pathology …

Ex Marks the Spot - one of the world's leading "cure through therapy and prayer" peddlers, the U.S.-based Exodus International, exits the industry …

DUMBA - the usual rightwing Christian group suspects sign a joint declaration vowing to defy any marriage equality-supportive ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court ….

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