NewsWrap for the week ending April 18, 2015
SUMMARY
Poquito Mas - A Mexican Supreme Court ruling orders marriage equality in the state of Sinaloa …
Still Proving a Point - an administrative court in Cairo upholds the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s denial of reentry to a Libyan student deported in 2008 for being gay …
Still Unscathed - the offices of the leading LGBT rights group in Kyrgyzstan, Labrys, are firebombed …
Still Stalling - Guam’s governor is “delaying” his promised decision on whether or not to allow the U.S. territory’s Public Health Department - which deferred to him after the state Attorney General so ordered - to issue a marriage license to a lesbian couple who’ve sued in federal court for it …
Call In the Mad Men - Indiana Governor Mark Pence’s popularity plummets following his disastrous support for a so-called “religious freedom” law, while the CEO of well-known Indiana-based consumer review website Angie’s List steps down to “fix” his state’s image, and state officials want to “fix” it by spending at least 2 million dollars on a public relations firm …
Hurricane Bobby - seemingly-oblivious Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal - expected to announce his GOP presidential aspirations sometime soon - pushes a “religious freedom” bill in his state’s legislature that critics say is even worse than the original Indiana law …
Avian Agenda - the penguin-loving children’s storybook "And Tango Makes Three" is again among the American Library Association’s Top 3 "Most Challenged Books" this year because it "promotes a homosexual agenda" …
Labels: bisexual, Egypt, gay, Guam, homophobia, homosexuality, human rights, Indiana, Kyrgyzstan, lesbian, LGBT, Libya, Louisiana, marriage equality, Mexico, transgender, transsexual
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