NewsWrap for the week ending October 3, 2015
SUMMARY
Booked Up - A resort executive in Bali faces blasphemy charges for selling the hotel’s Hindu cleansing ceremony package to a gay couple that was widely reported as a “gay wedding” …
Isle of Two Men/Two Women? - the autonomous government of the British crown dependency Isle of Man begins a public consultation on opening civil marriage to same-gender couples …
Out For Good - a public forum on marriage equality reveals a sharp divide in British Overseas Territory Bermuda, but prompts a union official to come out …
Light Rail Romance - video of the marriage proposal of a gay man to his boyfriend on a Beijing subway is the talk of Chinese social media …
Student Teacher - Tunisia’s Justice Minister announces his support for repeal of the northern African nation’s sodomy law …
Green Light - Irish Queers and allied groups win a 25-year battle to march as self-identified LGBT groups in New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade …
Till It's Over - a fond farewell to U.S. baseball legend, English language mangler and little-known LGBT ally Yogi Berra …
Labels: Bali, Bermuda, bisexual, China, gay, homophobia, homosexuality, human rights, lesbian, LGBT, marriage equality, St. Patrick's Day, transgender, transsexual, Tunisia, UK, Yogi Berra
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