NewsWrap for the week ending August 23, 2014

SUMMARY

Policy Transition - The U.S. Department of Labor issues guidelines to officially ban bias against transgender workers by federal contractors …

Arrested Development - imprisoned Wikileaker Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning says she's still waiting for the gender transition treatment she's been promised …

Picture This - Russian thug Maxim Martsinkevich, notorious for leading an anti-gay vigilante group called Operation Pedophelia that tortured and outed young gay men in web-posted videos, gets five years behind bars for "extremism," but not for his anti-gay crimes …

Lifted Offering - a major multi-faith Ugandan religious group loses U.S. funding for endorsing the country's horrific Anti-Homosexuality Law …

Brighter Sunshine - a U.S. federal judge joins four state courts that had already declared Florida's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional …

Hoosier Justice - another federal judge orders Indiana to recognize the marriages of lesbian and gay couples legally performed elsewhere …

Staying Power - an appeals court ruling overturning Virginia's ban is stayed by the U.S. Supreme Court …

Steep Incline - a federal appeals court extends an indefinite stay on a lower court ruling striking down Colorado's ban …

Summer Sci Fi Hate-Buster - Irish marriage equality group LGBT Noise web-posts "Armagayddon," an over-the-top video satire lampooning people who believe opening civil marriage to same-gender couples marks the end of the world ….

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