NewsWrap for the week ending March 15, 2014

SUMMARY

Fight Back - A coalition of Ugandan human rights groups are joined by LGBT activists, commentators, scholars and politicians in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the country's "Anti-Homosexuality Act"…

For Your Own Good - Nigeria's Justice Minister claims his country's so-called "Jail All the Gays" law was enacted to protect them from vigilante violence …

Copycat Hatred - politicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Kenya each push for harsher laws against LGBT people …

Learning Curbed - Zimbabwe activists are arrested in Harare for conducting a media training workshop …

Ovo-Phobo-Demo - machete-wielding Russian thugs pelt LGBT participants in Moscow's March 8th International Women's Day March with raw eggs, but are arrested before they can do more serious damage …

Queer Queueing - thanks to a quirk in the U.K. marriage equality law, same-gender couples legally married in other jurisdictions are now considered to be legally married at home, while never-married couples will still have to wait until March 29th to tie the knot …

ObamaQare - the U.S. Health and Human Services Department tells insurance providers that beginning next year they must offer the same coverage to legally married same-gender couples as they do to heterosexually-married couples …

Mysterious Ways - charges are unexpectedly dropped against United Methodist Church Rev. Dr. Thomas Ogletree for officiating the wedding of his son to another man …

Tennessee Hospitality - a U.S. federal judge orders Tennessee to recognize the legal marriages of same-gender couples contracted in other states …

Bet on a Losing Race - Kentucky's Governor authorizes the payment of 100,000 taxpayer dollars to outside attorneys to defend a ban on out-of-state same-gender marriages …

Pry Open the Window - same-gender couples in Utah who civilly married during a brief period of time that they could legally do so ask a federal judge to order the state to recognize their marriages …

Please Knock Loudly - new lawsuits challenging state bans on marriage equality filed in Arizona, Florida, and Indiana join more than 50 others working their way through the court system in several states ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted March 18, 2014.