NewsWrap for the week ending February 8, 2014

SUMMARY

Gold Medal Handcuffs - As many as two dozen LGBT rights activists are jailed in separate actions in Moscow and St. Petersburg on the eve of the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Sochi for violating Russia's so-called "no promo homo" law …

Prison Be Unto You - Nigeria's Roman Catholic Bishops Conference praises President Goodluck Jonathan for signing what's come to be known as the "Jail All the Gays" bill …

National Resistance Doctors Agree - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is reportedly getting "scientific" assurances from lawmakers in his ruling political party with medical backgrounds that gays can be "cured" so that he can sign the oppressive "Anti-Homosexuality" bill there …

Purple Heather - Scottish lawmakers overwhelmingly make their country the 17th in the world to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples …

Lovers on Hold - a U.S. federal judge promises a ruling "soon" following hearings on a lawsuit challenging Virginia's state ban on marriage equality …

Forward Looking - same-gender couples file suit this week challenging Wisconsin's ban …

Cinema Verite - hooded thugs invade a movie theater in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo hosting an LGBT Film Festival injuring at least three people …

Hot-Footing Down Fitzroy - tens of thousands brave sweltering temperatures in Australia to applaud the annual LGBT Pride march in Melbourne …

Prideful Pushback - a record crowd defies India's Supreme Court with Pride in Mumbai …

Condolences - lesbian tennis legend Billie Jean King bows out of the official U.S. delegation to the Winter Olympics because of her mother Betty Moffitt's failing health, who died at 91 on the same day as the Opening Ceremonies in Sochi …

Torch of a Different Color - the London Gay Men's Chorus "serenades" the Russian Embassy to protest that country's "no promo homo" law during the hours that the Winter Games Opening Ceremonies are being held in Sochi ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted February 11, 2014.