NewsWrap for the week ending April 19, 2014

SUMMARY

When Two Aren't Enough - India's High Court declares trans-people to be a third gender entitled to rights, protections, and government benefits …

Whistling in the Dark - the conviction and 35-year prison sentence for Wiki-leaking U.S. Army Private Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning are upheld, sending her case to a military appeals court …

Twin Wins - Malta lawmakers protect transgender people from discrimination, and create marriage-like civil unions for same-gender couples that include adoption rights …

Time Out Corner - Ethiopia's government resists calls for harsher anti-gay laws than already exist, so a large church groups-organized anti-gay march in Addis Ababa is cancelled …

The Usual Suspect - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe calls gays and lesbians "inhuman" and threatens to kick pro-gay foreign diplomats out of the country …

Trapped - defiance and fear mix among Ugandan LGBT and HIV/AIDS activists under the new "Jail the Gays" law as many of their lives are threatened and police hunt them, while a Namibian official says his country won't accept gay refugees fleeing Uganda …

Stoned Again - new laws in Brunei punish consensual adult gay sex with death by stoning …

Can You Hear Me Now? - the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals considers Oklahoma's challenge to a lower federal court ruling declaring the state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional in the second such hearing in as many weeks …

Don't Save the Children - Utah's Attorney General asks the state Supreme Court to stop same-gender couples who legally married during the brief few days that they could from getting second parent adoption approval …

What Constitution? - despite the U.S. Supreme Court 2003 ruling overturning state sodomy laws, Louisiana lawmakers vote to keep their statute on the books because residents believe gay people to be "dangerous, unhealthy and immoral" …

Southern Hospitality - in response to enactment of a state law to "protect religious freedom" that opponents called a veiled anti-LGBT "license to discriminate," hundreds of Mississippi business owners and shop keepers are welcoming them as customers with rainbow window stickers declaring "We Don't Discriminate" ….

Read the <a href="http://bit.ly/1rjZtpc">complete NewsWrap text</a> ... or listen to <a href="http://bit.ly/1i5px5c">this week's podcast</a>.