NewsWrap for the week ending November 2, 2013
SUMMARY
Taipei Tipping Point - A marriage equality bill is introduced in Taiwan's legislature the day after more than 50,000 parade with Pride in Taipei …
Rings and Rainbows - hundreds demonstrate for marriage rights in Hanoi …
Experts Notwithstanding - a marriage equality proposal fails for the second time in the Australian state of Tasmania …
Who Do They Say That I Am? - the Vatican distributes an unprecedented worldwide survey asking for input from local Roman Catholic parishes about such contentious social issues as abortion, divorce, and marriage equality …
Cold Shoulder - Thomas Bach, the new head of the International Olympic Committee, refuses to meet with LGBT advocates during his visit to the Russian site of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi …
A League of Their Own - a group of Russian activists is planning a major sporting event in Moscow right after the Sochi Olympics that will be open to people of all sexual orientations …
He Blinded Me With Junk Science - discredited homophobic American psychologist Paul Cameron gives "expert" testimony before the Russian parliament claiming that one in three gay men has sex with children or wants to …
Open the Flood Gates - former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who oversaw the dismantling of Don't Ask Don't Tell, is tapped to lead the soon-to-be partially-gay-welcoming Boy Scouts of America ….
Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted November 5, 2013.
Labels: Australia, bisexual, Boy Scouts, gay, homophobia, homosexual, human rights, lesbian, LGBT, marriage equality, Olympics, Pope Francis, Russia, Taiwan, Tasmania, transgender, transsexual, Vatican, Vietnam
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