NewsWrap for the week ending June 7, 2014

SUMMARY

Behind the People's Backs - Lawmakers in Slovakia overwhelmingly vote to constitutionally ban marriage equality …

Belly of the Bear - same-gender couples can now marry at British consulates in 23 countries – including Russia …

Almost Losing Count - a federal judge makes Wisconsin the latest U.S. state with an unconstitutional ban on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples …

Final Holdout - seven couples challenge the marriage equality ban in North Dakota, which had been the only state in the union without such a lawsuit …

The More the Married-er - Idaho's governor asks the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court to meet en banc rather than assign a more typical three-judge panel to hear that state's marriage equality case …

Marry Up and Wait - Utah gets a stay of a judge's order to recognize the marriages of more than 1300 same-gender couples who legally wed during the 17-day period they could in the state from late December through early January …

Before Somebody Drops A House On You Too - a Florida judge rules that three anti-equality groups have no standing to defend that state's marriage ban …

Not A NOM To Stand On - the U.S. Supreme Court affirms a lower court ruling that the notoriously anti-equality National Organization for Marriage (NOM) had no standing to intervene in the Oregon case, and NOM loses a lawsuit against the I.R.S. after claiming that the agency intentionally published the names and amounts of its donors …

Proudly Beyond Expectations - thousands celebrate a reasonably-peaceful first Pride event in Cyprus …

Solid Judgement - Puerto Rico's governor taps out lesbian Maite Oronoz Rodríguez to become the first openly-queer judge on any U.S. state or territorial Supreme Court …

The Next Generation - Peruvian immigrant Robert Garcia becomes the first out, the first Latino, and the youngest-ever Mayor of Long Beach, California ….

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