NewsWrap for the week ending October 13, 2012

SUMMARY

Moscow Mayhem - More than 20 masked men storm into a popular Moscow gay bar using fists, bottles and caustic substances to injure at least 10 patrons, sending four to the hospital …

Something Inside So Strong - police officials force Belgrade Pride off Serbian streets and into a conference hall for a forward-looking celebration …

Liberty, Equality, Matrimony - the French government announces that its ministers will approve a marriage equality measure on October 31st …

Feds Butt In - a bill to stop the federal government from challenging state or territorial marriage equality measures fails by a wide margin in the Australian Parliament …

No Change For the Changers - a state court in Malaysia rejects a challenge by four transgender-identified Muslim men to secular and Shariah laws banning cross-dressing …

Out of the Coop - the Daily Beast tells the unique love story of Big Bird's two gay dads ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 9, 2012

SUMMARY

Danish Treat - Denmark becomes the eleventh country in the world to open marriage to same-gender couples …

How Many Stakes Will It Take? - yet another U.S. federal court declares DOMA unconstitutional, this time in a case involving 83-year-old lesbian widower Edie Windsor …

What Part of "No" … - the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to reconsider it three-judge panel's February ruling that California's Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution …

Century of Shame - the Moscow City Court bans Pride for 100 years …

From Warsaw to Riga - Poland's capital of Warsaw and Latvia's capital of Riga each host peaceful Pride marches …

From Mexico City to Tel Aviv - as many as 30,000 party with Pride in Mexico City and a like number do it in Tel Aviv …

To Detroit and Beyond - a Chevy Volt "comes out" for Detroit's Motor City Pride …

For All the Saints - supportive Mormons make history with Pride in Salt Lake City, Utah ….

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Candidly k.d. & Anderson Backstage

Iconic crooner k.d. lang talks about her music, love, and life (from "Out in South London" with Rosie Wilby on Resonance-FM).

A behind-the-scenes chat with award-winning multi-genre playwright Jane Anderson (and our Ben Caron).

And in NewsWrap: Pride marchers meet mayhem in Moscow, LGBT parades aborted in Montenegro and Belarus, Aussie fundamentalists can't silence marriage equality calls, Church of Scotland lifts blanket ban on gay clergy, Pride accidentally on display in Afghanistan, and more news reported by Ben Caron and Chris Wilson.

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