NewsWrap for the week ending May 25, 2013

SUMMARY

In the Lords' Hands - A lopsided approval in its third and final reading in the British House of Commons sends the "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill" for England and Wales to the House of Lords, where passage may be more difficult …

Remedial Legislation - Nevada's Assembly advances a bill already passed in the Senate to repeal the U.S. state's 2002 voter-approved constitutional ban and open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Apply Full Rudd-er - former Australian P.M. and current M.P. Kevin Rudd surprises many with his blog posting in support of secular marriage equality …

Family Whys - Portugal's parliament allows members of legally married same-gender couples to adopt their spouse's biological or adopted children, but nixes joint adoption rights …

Discrimination Derailed - Puerto Rico's House joins its Senate to approve a bill banning bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing and government services, while the House approves a measure and sends to the Senate a bill to add those two categories to the island territory's domestic violence laws …

Collateral Damage - several U.S. advocacy groups acknowledge that LGBT people will be among the estimated 11 million undocumented people currently living in the U.S. to benefit from proposed immigration reform, but criticize Democrats for throwing same-gender couples under the bus because they believed including rights for them would scuttle the legislation …

Half Empty - the Boy Scouts of America decides to welcome openly gay members, but will kick them out when they turn 18 if they want to be scout leaders [JESS BURNS of "Free Speech Radio News" reports/www.fsrn.org] …

In Memoriam - posthumous honors bring the Presidential Medal of Freedom to trailblazing lesbian astronaut Sally Ride, and the first national park in the U.S. named for him to pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted May 28th.

Minnesota Marriage & Riley's Witness

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The North Star State makes it a U.S. marriage equality dozen while Dixie Treichel is on the scene at the capitol in St. Paul among the people to whom it matters.

18-year-old son-of-lesbians Riley Roberts' testimony before a Nevada State Assembly committee is clearly sane, whereas Linda Harvey's Mission: America diatribe is certified hate speech.

And in NewsWrap:  international actions oppose homo- and trans-phobia, protestors squelch Ukrainian job rights bill, EU poll proves that the poor and the young bear the brunt of anti-LGBT bias, and more news reported by Jason Proctor and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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