NewsWrap for the week ending December 7, 2013

SUMMARY

Ironclad Bias - Russia's highest court rules that laws criminalizing the dissemination of "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors" do not violate the national constitution, while a court in Murmansk is believed to be the first to convict violators of the federal "no promo homo" law …

Who's Gaming Now - representatives of several Russian LGBT advocacy groups have an unsatisfying meeting with new IOC President Thomas Bach in Paris about Russian President Putin's vague assurances that LGBT athletes and spectators will be safe at the Winter Games in Sochi …

Bench Warmers - major corporate sponsors of those Games are being pressured to overtly oppose Russia's repressive attacks on gay rights …

Heart on Your Sleeve - American Apparel teams up with two LGBT advocacy groups for a "Principle 6" clothing line …

Homophobia in Hrvatska - to no one's surprise, heavily Roman Catholic Croatians overwhelmingly vote a ban on marriage equality into their national constitution …

Greeced Pig - the Greek government caves to conservative and religious pressure by scrapping a proposal to open the country's civil unions to same-gender couples …

Wedding Window - gay and lesbian couples start legally marrying in the Australian Capital Territory on December 7th, but they could all be annulled by a High Court ruling on December 12th …

Happy Homomoon - researchers estimate a 217 million dollar tourism bonanza for Hawai'i over the next three years with the advent of marriage equality in the "Aloha State" on December 2nd …

Madiba's Rainbow - LGBT people join the world in mourning the death of iconic South African human rights advocate Nelson Mandela, who created a "Rainbow Nation" with the help of the late gay anti-apartheid and AIDS activist Simon Nkoli …

Glad to Accommodate -a court in the U.S. state of Colorado and the U.K. Supreme Court each decide that gay and lesbian couples deserve to be treated equally under the law ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted December 10, 2013.