NewsWrap for the week ending November 10, 2012

SUMMARY

Chapter Two - LGBT rights supporters celebrate historic victories in this week's U.S. elections, including a second term win by "Ally in Chief" President Barack Obama …

Dyke on the Hill - Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin becomes the first open lesbian or gay person elected to the U.S. Senate …

Bad Pennies - Congressional homophobes Bachmann and Foxx are re-elected ..

Choosing to Discriminate - voters in Salina and Hutchinson, Kansas rescind anti-bias ordinances passed by their respective city councils …

Court of Public Opinion - Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins survives efforts to have him removed from the bench for supporting marriage equality …

Grand Slam - Maine voters re-open civil marriage to same-gender couples, voters in Maryland and Washington each affirm the marriage equality votes of their respective state legislatures, and Minnesotans reject a proposal to constitutionally ban same-gender marriage …

Like Wildfire - more than a hundred "out" LGBT candidates win state and local elections across the country and nearly double their number on Capitol Hill …

Empire Stakes - one of the four Republican Senators who voted for marriage equality in New York last year is re-elected, another did not seek re-election, the third lost his primary election, and the fourth loses to a Democrat …

Happy Ending - "Big Brother Australia" winner Benjamin Norris proposes to his boyfriend on national television ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 27, 2012

SUMMARY

Suing for Dignity - Jamaican activists file suit at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights demanding repeal of their island nation's sodomy laws …

Lawyer Contracts - phone calls and text messages from persons unknown make death threats against two legal advocates for LGBT rights and their family members in Cameroon …

Lacking Appeal - New York's highest court rejects what may be the last legal challenge to the state's marriage equality law …

Holding Noses May Not Be Enough - the gay Log Cabin Republicans give Mitt Romney their "qualified" endorsement, even as the GOP presidential candidate reiterates his support for a federal constitutional amendment to define marriage as exclusively heterosexual, and the "Boston Globe" reports on his efforts as Massachusetts governor to thwart the legal recognition of lesbian and gay parents …

Cheerleader-In-Chief - President Barack Obama formally urges votes in favor of marriage equality on state ballot measures this November in Maine, Maryland and Washington …

Marriage Scrimmage - National Football League Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo's outspoken support for Maryland marriage equality draws a state lawmaker's letter demanding that the team owners silence him, prompting Minnesota Vikings punter CHRIS KLUWE to mock the lawmaker in an open letter and appear in a radio ad against the marriage equality-banning state constitutional amendment on the November ballot in his state [you'll hear the spot] …

One-Two Punch - recently "out" Puerto Rican professional featherweight boxer Orlando Cruz wins his first fight as an openly gay man ….

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Romney's Gay Retreat & Estelle Brown

It was a short stay for GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney's gay as "out" national security and foreign policy spokesman Richard Grenell was "out" of a job almost as soon as he arrived. Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart skewers America Family Association mouthpiece Bryan Fischer in its take on the widely reported story.

The lesbian member of Elvis' legendary back-up group the Sweet Inspirations talks with Steve Pride about her journey from harmony to unity.

And in NewsWrap: Kenyan human rights group seeks sex law reform, Russian "no promo" foes busted in St. Petersburg, Methodists keep United versus "incompatible" homos, hetero kissing banned in Copenhagen gay bar, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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