NewsWrap for the week ending July 20, 2013
SUMMARY
Crowning Achievement - The Queen's Royal Assent makes England and Wales the 16th and 17th countries in the world to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …
The Money Pit - U.S. House Republicans stop wasting taxpayer money defending DOMA …
Elope with Pride - gay Aussie couple wins a "dream wedding" in New Zealand, and the first kiwi same-gender couple to wed may do so at 30,000 feet …
Unintended Consequences - Alistair Stewart of Britain's Kaleidoscope Trust warns that advances in the West like marriage equality have lead to a "perverse" worsening of LGBT freedoms in the developing world …
Martyrs' Roll Call - Cameroon gay and AIDS activist Eric Lembembe is horrifically tortured to death, while 20-year-old Hashim al-Asimi is shot to death in Yemen for being gay …
We Are Trayvon, Too - key witness in the high-profile Florida trial of George Zimmerman tells CNN that 17-year-old victim Trayvon Martin may have worried that wannabe cop Zimmerman was following him with rape in mind, while 35 American LGBT organizations issue a joint statement calling for a Justice Department probe into the killing because "Trayvon Martin deserves justice and his civil rights" …
Numero Uno - singer and gay bar owner Benjamin Medrano is elected mayor in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, a rural northern city of about 230,000, becoming Mexico's first "out" mayor …
Island Hopping - Pink Dot Singapore begets Pink Dot Okinawa ....
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Labels: bisexual, Cameroon, DOMA, gay, homophobia, homosexual, homosexuality, human rights, lesbian, LGBT, marriage equality, Mexico, New Zealand, Okinawa, Singapore, transgender, transsexual, Trayvon Martin, UK, Yemen
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