NewsWrap for the week ending April 12, 2014

SUMMARY

Party Off - Thirty-five men are arrested by Saudi Arabia religious police for being at a "gay party" in Jeddah, while four gay men are jailed in Egypt for "debauchery" …

Tuscan Triumph - an Italian court orders the country's first-ever recognition of the marriage of a same-gender couple legally performed abroad …

Last Rights - a U.S. federal court orders the state of Indiana to recognize the Massachusetts marriage of a lesbian couple, one of whom has terminal cancer …

Line Starts Here - a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hears Utah's case challenging a lower court decision declaring the state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional – and Oklahoma's challenge will be heard by the same three judges in the coming week …

Safe Bet - Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring sides with marriage equality-seeking same-gender couples in their lawsuit challenging the "heterosexuals only" state ban, and only five U.S. states with bans have escaped court challenges …

Bullies Begone - Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton signs an LGBT-inclusive state anti-bullying bill …

Solemn Oath - Seattle, Washington city officials and his troop's church sponsor stand behind ousted-because-he's-out Boy Scout leader Geoff McGrath ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 14, 2013

SUMMARY

Re-engagement - Hawai'i's governor calls a special session of the state legislature to pass a marriage equality bill …

Arrest That County - a judge in Pennsylvania orders Montgomery County to stop issuing marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples in defiance of a state ban against them …

Ask the Ref - the New Mexico Supreme Court agrees to issue a statewide marriage equality ruling after several counties begin issuing licenses to same-gender couples …

Two Spirit Day - Washington state's Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation becomes the fifth Native American tribe to open marriage to gay and lesbian couples …

Ganbei - more than 1200 equality supporters celebrate a traditional "wedding banquet" outside the presidential palace in Taipei to push the Taiwan government toward enacting marriage equality …

Good for the Wild Goose - out filmmaker Kim Jho Gwang-Soo symbolically marries his longtime partner Kim Seung-Hwan on a bridge in Seoul in Korea's first-ever public gay wedding …

Could It Be ... Saaa-tin??? - Greek Orthodox Church Patriarch Bartholomew I condemns same-gender unions as "sinful, reprehensible," and a "new invention," while Roman Catholic Archbishop of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota John Nienstedt thinks that marriage equality is the Devil's handiwork …

Don't Rain on My Parade - the organizer of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi pleads with the IOC to find a way to stop the global outcry over Russia's so-called "no promo homo" law because it's overshadowing his preparations for the upcoming Games …

Pied Piper - a Russian lawmaker proposes legislation to deny child custody to gay and lesbian parents and to even remove from their homes kids who are already living with gay or lesbian parents …

Psycho - Tony Perkins of the U.S. Family Research Council, a Southern Poverty Law Center-certified hate group, bakes up another rightwing boycott against another pro-LGBT company in a widely-distributed radio diatribe against Minnesota-based Betty Crocker  ….

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Gregoire's Gift & India's High Court

Gov. Christine Gregoire gives Washington a great wedding gift in her exuberant marriage equality bill signing ceremony remarks.

Religious fundamentalists appeal a landmark rights ruling that, as Indu Vashist reports from New Dehli for Free Speech Radio News, gave LGBTs in India their visibility.

Plus: the L Project's U.K. chart-topping music video sensation assures queer youth that It Does Get Better.

And in NewsWrap: Islamic U.N. countries decline to discuss sexual minorities, African nations intensify LGBT repression, Australian parliamentarians circulate marriage equality proposals, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).


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