NewsWrap for the week ending October 18, 2014

SUMMARY

Gratus Interruptus - An extraordinary gathering of Roman Catholic Church bishops in Rome considers an LGBT semi-welcoming document, but the move is so controversial that even a compromise attempt ultimately fails …

Dancing With Draco - Kyrgyzstan lawmakers overwhelmingly approve a worse-than-Russia's "no promo homo" bill that punishes offenders with up to a year in prison …

Free To Be - the Pacific island nation of Palau decriminalizes gay sex …

Slate Cleaning - New South Wales looks to join the states of Victoria and South Australia to expunge criminal records of those arrested for consensual adult gay sex before the law's repeal …

Love's Lasting Flame - Paris memorializes the last gay couple in France who were burned at the stake for homosexuality …

Auld Lang Syne - Scotland will celebrate marriage equality on New Year's Eve …

Weddings March - Arizona, Alaska and Wyoming join the growing number of U.S. marriage equality states – and related developments …

Steadfast in the Streets - Taiwan LGBT activists pressure lawmakers to unjam a marriage equality bill …

Aegista Diversifamilia - the name Taiwanese scientists have given to a newly-discovered species of land snail endemic to the island honors the struggle for civil marriage rights ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted October 21, 2014.