NewsWrap for the week ending October 26, 2013

SUMMARY

Legislative Time Out - Proposed legislation in Russia to remove children from the homes of their gay or lesbian parents is withdrawn, but not forgotten …

200 Overcome 1500 - violent attacks by right-wing extremists on the first-ever Pride march in Montenegro's capital of Podgorica end with several injuries and multiple arrests …

Aussies At Odds - the federal government challenges the latest effort to enact marriage equality in the Australian Capital Territory, anti-equality P.M. Tony Abbott's out lesbian sister announces her engagement, and lawmakers consider marriage equality bills in the Australian states of New South Wales and Tasmania …

Tar Heel Tap Dancing - an official in Buncombe County, North Carolina tests that U.S. state's hetero-only marriage law, while same-gender couples legally married elsewhere demand recognition of their marriages there …

Clarity To Come - a ruling is expected by year's end by the New Mexico Supreme Court after it hears arguments this week in a marriage equality case …

Forever Hold Your Peace - France's Constitutional Council -- the country's highest court – rules that mayors opposed to marriage equality cannot refuse to officiate at weddings of same-gender couples …

Skater Won't Let Russia Slide - out U.S. figure skating champion Johnny Weir retires from competition, but not from LGBT rights advocacy –- including sharp criticism of Russia's so-called "no promo homo law" --  when he serves as a figure skating analyst for the NBC TV Network's coverage of the February 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian seaside city of Sochi ….

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