NewsWrap for the week ending January 24, 2015
SUMMARY
With and Without Civility - Chilean lawmakers put the finishing touches on a civil unions bill, but Macedonia’s Parliament bans civil marriage and makes civil unions almost impossible …
Three Strikes - Portuguese lawmakers reject for the third time a bill to open adoption to same-gender couples …
Sweet Home - a U.S. federal judge overturns Alabama’s civil marriage ban …
News That's Fit to Scapegoat - the Egyptian government has reportedly ordered state-run media to step up negative coverage of LGBT people …
Censored! - Russian authorities tentatively ban films that “defile national values” -- such as, critics warn, any with positive LGBT content -- and the founder of an online site for Russian LGBT teens, “Children-404," is convicted of spreading “gay propaganda” …
Trans World Headlines - Israel’s high court allows trans people to change the gender designation on their IDs without having to undergo reassignment surgery, the first housing shelter for Turkish trans-women opens in Istanbul, and trailblazing Silverton, Oregon Mayor Stu Rasmussen, the first transgender mayor in the U.S., leaves politics -- at least for now ….
Labels: Alabama, bisexual, Chile, civil unions, Egypt, gay, homophobia, homosexuality, human rights, Israel, lesbian, LGBT, marriage equality, Oregon, Portugal, Russia, transgender, transsexual, Turkey
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