NewsWrap for the week ending October 26, 2013

SUMMARY

Legislative Time Out - Proposed legislation in Russia to remove children from the homes of their gay or lesbian parents is withdrawn, but not forgotten …

200 Overcome 1500 - violent attacks by right-wing extremists on the first-ever Pride march in Montenegro's capital of Podgorica end with several injuries and multiple arrests …

Aussies At Odds - the federal government challenges the latest effort to enact marriage equality in the Australian Capital Territory, anti-equality P.M. Tony Abbott's out lesbian sister announces her engagement, and lawmakers consider marriage equality bills in the Australian states of New South Wales and Tasmania …

Tar Heel Tap Dancing - an official in Buncombe County, North Carolina tests that U.S. state's hetero-only marriage law, while same-gender couples legally married elsewhere demand recognition of their marriages there …

Clarity To Come - a ruling is expected by year's end by the New Mexico Supreme Court after it hears arguments this week in a marriage equality case …

Forever Hold Your Peace - France's Constitutional Council -- the country's highest court – rules that mayors opposed to marriage equality cannot refuse to officiate at weddings of same-gender couples …

Skater Won't Let Russia Slide - out U.S. figure skating champion Johnny Weir retires from competition, but not from LGBT rights advocacy –- including sharp criticism of Russia's so-called "no promo homo law" --  when he serves as a figure skating analyst for the NBC TV Network's coverage of the February 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian seaside city of Sochi ….

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Troubles in Russia, Cameroon and Zimbabwe

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Venerable writer/activist Harvey Fierstein takes aim at President Vladimir Putin in a New York Times op-ed  as an outbreak of Russian repression threatens the Olympic torch (Fierstein appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.)

Cameroon activists mourn assassinated LGBT leader Eric Lembembe (Ngala Killian Chimtom of Free Speech Radio News reports from Yaounde.)

Zimbabwe's long hard slog against hate continues (Free Speech Radio News reporter Garikai Chaunza has the latest from Harare.)

And in NewsWrap: news in or about Russia dominates this week's LGBT headlines, Moldova surprises rights groups with "no promo homo" law, death threats and stones greet Montenegro's first LGBT Pride march, dignitaries pelted with eggs at Lithuania's second Pride, Super Mario satire stings Mexican media, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 29, 2013

SUMMARY

Igniting a Fierstein - A scathing rebuke of President Vladimir Putin in the New York Times kicks off an LGBT week dominated by news in or about Russia …

Get Me to the Church End Times - the apoplectic leader of the Russian Orthodox Church warns that marriage equality is a "dangerous sign of the apocalypse" …

Not Worth the Price of Admission - St. Petersburg appeals court judge upholds a backbreaking fine against the "Side By Side" LGBT Film Festival for violating a new national "foreign agent" law …

Anti-Social Networking Brown Shirts - neo-Nazi group uses the Russian version of Facebook to lure young gay men to a supposed date that turns into videotaped torture, beatings, and humiliation …

Tourist Detraction - four Dutch nationals become the first non-Russians to be punished for violating the new national law against the "promotion of non-traditional sexual relations" …

Scoring the Truth & Field Event - the U.S. Human Rights Campaign asks NBC-TV to include coverage of the persecution of LGBT people -- including its impact on athletes and visitors -- during their broadcasts of the Winter Olympics in the Black Sea town of Sochi next year, and questions International Olympic Committee assurances that LGBT people will be safe at those Games …

Grey Goose, Anyone? - boycott of Russian vodka by gay nightspots to protest the treatment of LGBT people there spreads around the world, but a leading Russian activist questions its value …

You Don't Have To Be Russian - Moldova secretly enacts its own "no promo homo" law …

Target Practice - protestors chanting "kill the gays" and throwing stones and bottles greet Pride marchers in Montenegro, while eggs are the thrown objects of choice in Lithuania …

State of Frustration - marriage equality bill fails in the South Australia lower house …

Surprise! - New Mexico's Attorney General tells the U.S. state's high court that barring same-gender couples from civil marriage is unconstitutional …

Super Mythology - Luigi and Mario aren't Brothers, they're a gay couple!!

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