NewsWrap for the week ending September 29, 2014

SUMMARY

Allied Victory - The United Nations Human Rights Council approves a landmark resolution condemning anti-LGBT violence and harassment around the world …

Fair Play - the International Olympic Committee – not wanting to chance another Sochi – adds a provision to the standard host city contract requiring an affirmation of the rights of sexual- and gender-variant people …

It's Okay By Us - Russia's Constitutional Court upholds the nation's notorious law banning "the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations to minors" …

Assalamu 'Alaikum - South Africa's first mosque to welcome people regardless of gender or sexual orientation to worship together is shut down less than a week after it opens …

Undercover Avatars - as the crackdown on Egyptian gay men escalates, the meeting app Grindr warns its users in that country that police officers could be "posing as LGBT on social media to entrap you" …

Bundle of Justice - France's top court okays co-parent status for a lesbian couple, one of whom conceived via in vitro outside the country …

Uh, Ya Think? - a state judge in Louisiana declares that state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional …

Ready When You Are - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department will file briefs with the Supreme Court in support of marriage equality if and whenever the high court decides to hear a case  …

Bending the Arc - the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges two businesses with bias on the basis of gender identity in first-ever lawsuits citing Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 …

Dress For Success - skirted Brazilian schoolboys brilliantly support a brave transgender classmate ….

Read the complete NewsWrap text ... download the podcast … or listen on Stitcher!