NewsWrap for the week ending October 3, 2015

SUMMARY

Booked Up - A resort executive in Bali faces blasphemy charges for selling the hotel’s Hindu cleansing ceremony package to a gay couple that was widely reported as a “gay wedding” …

Isle of Two Men/Two Women? - the autonomous government of the British crown dependency Isle of Man begins a public consultation on opening civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Out For Good - a public forum on marriage equality reveals a sharp divide in British Overseas Territory Bermuda, but prompts a union official to come out …

Light Rail Romance - video of the marriage proposal of a gay man to his boyfriend on a Beijing subway is the talk of Chinese social media …

Student Teacher - Tunisia’s Justice Minister announces his support for repeal of the northern African nation’s sodomy law …

Green Light - Irish Queers and allied groups win a 25-year battle to march as self-identified LGBT groups in New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade …

Till It's Over - a fond farewell to U.S. baseball legend, English language mangler and little-known LGBT ally Yogi Berra …

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 6, 2014

SUMMARY

Free Unions With Full Consent - Coahuila becomes the first state in Mexico to legislatively open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

With All Due Haste - the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rapidly rules that bans on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples in Indiana and Wisconsin violate the U.S. Constitution …

Judicial Choices Refutation - a federal judge in Louisiana bucks the tide and upholds that state's ban, calling marriage equality "lifestyle choices recognition" …

Plaintiff Intimidation - Jamaican activist Javed Jaghai withdraws his Supreme Court challenge to the island nation's anti-gay buggery laws after receiving death threats to him and his family …

New Improved Hate - a possibly-revised form of Uganda's infamous Anti-Homosexuality Law is headed for parliament …

Emerald Ops - organizers of New York City's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade bend a 253-year ban by announcing that they’ll allow one – but only one - LGBT-identified organization, as it happens the employee group of one of its major sponsors, to march in the Parade next year …

Ride 'Em, Cowboy - the St. Louis Rams cut Michael Sam, the first out player drafted into the professional ranks of the U.S. National Football League, due to an over-abundance of other defensive end talent, but the Dallas Cowboys quickly hire Sam for their practice squad, a possible gateway to his first regular season debut …

Laced With Pride - the Australian Football League (AFL) endorses marriage equality, and top British professional football stars will soon be sporting rainbow laces in support of out players and fans ….

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