NewsWrap for the week ending June 21, 2014

SUMMARY

Take It To the Bank - Luxembourg lawmakers overwhelmingly approve civil marriage and adoption rights for lesbian and gay couples …

Stomping Grapes - Italian Senate is slated to debate a civil unions bill in September …

Thy Will Be Done - the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) blesses same-gender marriages …

Family Faire - Hong Kong doesn't like gay and lesbian couples tying the knot at the British consulate, even as thousands create a Pink Dot for Pride in the city's Tamar Park …

Not So Much - barely 2,000 homophobes rail against equality at the much-ballyhooed National Organization for Marriage rally in Washington, D.C. …

Second Thought Welcome - Canadian Immigration reverses itself and grants visas to several LGBT Ugandan activists to attend the World Pride 2014 Human Rights Conference in Toronto …

Up Against the Wall - the Obama administration has apparently gone as far as it can go in extending federal spousal benefits to married same-gender couples, leaving it up to Congress and/or the Supreme Court to finish the job …

Salud! - being in favor of marriage equality doesn't hurt the re-election bid of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos ….

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