NewsWrap for the week ending June 20, 2015

SUMMARY

Kiss and Jail - Two men get four month jail terms in Morocco for kissing in public, and perhaps up to 20 men are arrested in the Moroccan city of Agadir for homosexuality …

Uninvited Guests - Saudi Arabian "morality police" net several arrests in simultaneous early morning raids on two "gay parties" in Jeddah …

March Today, Miss Tomorrow - Israeli lawmakers reject an LGBT anti-bias bill …

Greens Left Lonely - Austria's National Assembly overwhelmingly votes down a marriage equality resolution …

2 For 2 - Taipei becomes the second city in Taiwan to symbolically recognize same-gender couples …

Where God Won't See You - the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, publishes a guide on to how to avoid hiring LGBT people and how to defend charges of bias by former LGBT workers, while Convention President Ronnie Floyd tilts at marriage equality windmills …

Duel to the Demonstration - a Seoul court overturns a police ban of the 15th annual Korea Queer Culture Festival's event-capping Pride parade …

Big Pink - record crowds light up Singapore's annual Pink Dot rally for LGBT rights …

Organic Organizer - a Baltimore, Maryland widow defiantly responds to a neighbor's complaint of having a "relentlessly gay" garden — with a little help from her friends …

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 17, 2015

SUMMARY

SCOTUS Engaged - The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear a challenge to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upheld bans on civil marriage for same-gender couples in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, but turns down the direct appeal of a district court ruling that upheld Louisiana's ban …

Marital Judgements - a federal judge orders Michigan to recognize the marriages of some 300 same-gender couples who tied the knot during a brief period of time when they could and a Kentucky judge grants a first-ever divorce to a lesbian couple who married in Massachusetts, even though Kentucky bans civil marriage equality, while the 9th U.S. Circuit rejects appeals for a rehearing of its 3-judge panel's decision striking down the bans in Nevada and Idaho, and a federal judge overturns South Dakota's ban …

Pushing the Borders - a gay couple who legally wed in England sues for recognition of the marriage in their native Northern Ireland, while a gay Mexicali couple's months-long march down the aisle concludes …

Parenting in Sin - Austria's highest court opens adoption to same-gender couples, even though they can't legally marry in the country …

Not Debauched Enough - 26 Egyptian men caught up in a much-ballyhooed raid on a Cairo bathhouse are unexpectedly acquitted of "debauchery" …

Hint Dropper - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon criticizes India's Section 377, the law that forbids private consensual adult gay sex, during his visit to New Delhi, but the ruling party might finally support repeal …

An Ideas Whose Time Has Passed - an official in the Indian state of Goa draws jeers for proposing centers to make LGBT people "normal," and then claims to have been "misquoted" …

Wrong Way - Russian officials "clarify" an edict issued last week saying that all transgender people would be denied driver's licenses ….

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"Struck By Lightning" & "Shakesqueer"

Glee’s Chris Colfer is the Executive Producer, Screenwriter and Star of a new movie about a hapless high-schooler zapped before his time (Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride).

The bawdy bard gets a perfect companion in Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Queer Life & Literature Commentator Janet Mason).

Plus: we devote a Rainbow Minute to U.K. gay rights pioneer Allan Horsfall (Producers Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, Reader Tom Miller).

And in NewsWrap: adoption laws liberated in Austria and Germany, problems in Puerto Rico for same-gender parents, Australian federal judge sees no bias in hetero-only Marriage Act, "Associated Press" back in style with "husbands" and "wives," and more news reported by Johnnie Torres and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 23, 2013

SUMMARY

Two Mothers Day - The European Court of Human Rights rules for same-gender couple second parent adoption rights in a case brought by an Austrian lesbian couple …

Kinder, Kuche, Queerche - Germany's highest court strengthens adoption rights same-gender couples already have there …

Late Adopters - Puerto Rico's Supreme Court rules that gay and lesbian couples aren't entitled to adoption rights of any kind …

Hot Sauce With That - Mexico's highest court affirms a marriage equality decision justices hinted at in December …

Equality By Extension - opponents of California's Proposition 8 argue in their brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court this week that same-gender couples are entitled to civil marriage in every state of the union, not just California …

Balance or Bias - federal judge in Australia rules that a national law denying civil marriage to same-gender couples is not bias because it discriminates equally against gay men and lesbian women …

Watch Your Language - new "Associated Press" Stylebook entry directs that legally-married gay and lesbian spouses should not generally be referred to in A.P. stories as "husband" or "wife," but revises that guideline after escalating protests from grassroots activists and major LGBT organizations ...

Equal in the Eyes of the Retailer - giant online retailer Amazon had already seen the handwriting on the AP wall, and debuted a commercial with a gendered twist ….

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