NewsWrap for the week ending November 8, 2014

SUMMARY

Repression Walks Again - A new bill in Uganda seeks to revive the infamous "Anti-Homosexuality Act", and is being called "even more draconian" …

Many Happy Arrests - leading Nigerian LGBT rights and health advocate Ifeanyi Orazulike says he was arrested without charge on his birthday and threatened by police officials …

Hard Time for A Good Time - eight Egyptian men who appeared in a notoriously viral "gay wedding" video each get three year prison terms …

Success for Dress - Malaysian transwomen win the right to cross-dress, and the Irish government settles a 21-year legal battle with trans activist Dr. Lydia Foy …

Breaking the Wedding Ceiling - a contrary marriage equality ruling by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals may finally force the Supreme Court to settle the issue, as state marriage equality battles continue to rage in Missouri, Kansas and Florida …

Not Laughing - Estonia becomes the region's third country to deny entry to Russian sitcom actor Ivan ("burn gays alive in ovens") Okhlobystin …

You're Out, I'm OUT - Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics, who banned the aforementioned Okhlobystin from his country last week, announces that he is "proud to be gay" on his official Twitter page …

Dropped Call - Russian officials tear down a six-foot interactive iPhone tribute to late Apple founder Steve Jobs on a St. Petersburg college campus after current CEO Tim Cook comes out, explaining that the memorial has now become "a public call to sodomy" ….

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