NewsWrap for the week ending June 20, 2015
SUMMARY
Kiss and Jail - Two men get four month jail terms in Morocco for kissing in public, and perhaps up to 20 men are arrested in the Moroccan city of Agadir for homosexuality …
Uninvited Guests - Saudi Arabian "morality police" net several arrests in simultaneous early morning raids on two "gay parties" in Jeddah …
March Today, Miss Tomorrow - Israeli lawmakers reject an LGBT anti-bias bill …
Greens Left Lonely - Austria's National Assembly overwhelmingly votes down a marriage equality resolution …
2 For 2 - Taipei becomes the second city in Taiwan to symbolically recognize same-gender couples …
Where God Won't See You - the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, publishes a guide on to how to avoid hiring LGBT people and how to defend charges of bias by former LGBT workers, while Convention President Ronnie Floyd tilts at marriage equality windmills …
Duel to the Demonstration - a Seoul court overturns a police ban of the 15th annual Korea Queer Culture Festival's event-capping Pride parade …
Big Pink - record crowds light up Singapore's annual Pink Dot rally for LGBT rights …
Organic Organizer - a Baltimore, Maryland widow defiantly responds to a neighbor's complaint of having a "relentlessly gay" garden — with a little help from her friends …
Labels: Austria, bisexual, Christianity, gay, homophobia, homosexuality, human rights, Israel, Korea, lesbian, LGBT, marriage equality, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, transgender, transsexual
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