NewsWrap for the week ending August 16, 2014

SUMMARY

Beirut Bathhouse Busts - A new crackdown on gay men appears to have started in Lebanon …

Competing Concerns - Ugandan President Musevini seems to be trying to slow down a rush to reinstatement of his country's horrific Anti-Homosexuality Law …

Kenyans in Glass Houses - proposed bill in neighboring Kenya to stone gays to death reportedly dies in a parliamentary committee …

Always Has To Be One - Roane County circuit judge breaks a pattern established by more than 30 other U.S. state and federal courts and upholds Tennessee's ban on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples …

Bias Ballot - voters in Chattanooga, Tennessee repeal a City Council-passed ordinance extending healthcare benefits to the same-gender partners of municipal workers …

Shaking a Red Stick at Progress - lawmakers in a Baton Rouge, Louisiana parish reject a proposal to ban bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity …

Sue If They Won't Sign - opponents of an anti-bias ordinance in Houston, Texas who fell short of the required number of signatures on a repeal petition sue out Mayor Annise Parker and the city to allow voters to decide the issue …

Another Inane Nazi Comparison - far-right Liberty Council founder Mat Staver says that U.S. lawmakers who fail to oppose marriage equality are the same as those who stayed silent during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany …

Gay Games & Great-Great Granny - U.S. President Barack Obama's video message welcomes athletes from more than 45 countries around the world to the Cleveland/Akron, Ohio area for the quadrennial Gay Games, and 99-year-old New York great-great grandmother Ida Keeling sets a certified world record at the Games in the 100-meter dash ….

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