NewsWrap for the week ending October 4, 2014

SUMMARY

Timing Troubles - A civil marriage equality bill stalls yet again in the Australian parliament …

Don't Ask Us - equality activists and opponents alike were awaiting word on whether the U.S. Supreme Court would hear one or more civil marriage cases – but the Justices take a pass …

How Many More Shoes to Drop? - a Missouri Circuit Court judge is the latest to overturn a state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples …

Safe, Not Silent - more than a thousand LGBT people and their supporters march in the first peaceful Pride parade in four years in the Serbian capital of Belgrade …

Bad for Business - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is apparently having second thoughts about the latest version in parliament of the possibly trade-killing "Anti-Homosexuality Law" …

"Enormous Step Backwards" - the semi-autonomous Indonesian province of Aceh, which operates under Islamic law, enacts a new statute to punish same-gender sex with public caning …

Development Over Discrimination - Quezon City, the biggest in the Philippines, expands its LGBT anti-bias protections to include education, insurance, access to goods and services, and accommodations …

Hate Gets the Spanish Boot - the Spanish region of Catalonia approves a bill levying heavy fines on perpetrators of anti-LGBT hate crimes …

We Are Not Amused - social media giant "Facebook" learns the hard way that you don't mess with drag queens ….

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