NewsWrap for the week ending October 11, 2014
SUMMARY
Equality Floodgates - The U.S. Supreme Court's October 6th decision opens civil marriage to same-gender couples in almost a dozen new states, and the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the following day adds five more to that burgeoning list …
Narrow Opening - a civil unions proposal for same-gender couples squeaks by Estonia's Parliament …
Copy Kyrgyz - a pending law banning "gay propaganda" in Kyrgyzstan is even worse than its Russian counterpart …
No Offense Intended - a Latvian Roman Catholic Archbishop says homosexuality is destroying humanity but claims that he’s not anti-gay …
Wrath of Bigots - Cape Town, South Africa's LGBT-welcoming Open Mosque is firebombed …
Mistaken Identities - transgender activist Audrey Mbugua wins a landmark legal battle in Kenya, but 11 girls in a Kenyan private school are suspended for "lesbianism" …
Trade Out - a Russian high school exchange student studying in the U.S. seeks American asylum because gay people are persecuted in his homeland …
Soured Screening - the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. cancels a previously-approved screening of the Oscar-winning biopic "Milk" because, among other concerns, rainbow flags on flyers promoting the event were too big ….
Labels: bisexual, Catholicism, Estonia, gay, Harvey Milk, homophobia, homosexuality, human rights, Islam, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, lesbian, LGBT, marriage equality, Russia, SCOTUS, South Africa, transgender, transsexual
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