- Ask? Tell? Oh, I don’t know. Injunctions were flying everywhere, Dan Choi tried to reenlist, and the latest seems to be that the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has stopped the enforcement of the district court order that the military stop enforcing DADT. Sorting out the double negatives: DADT is still on.
- The November elections will be the first since the 1990s without a measure to ban marriage equality on any state ballot, notes the Associated Press (via 365gay.com), but the issue is still having an impact in state races across the country.
- The appeal in the federal Prop 8 case, to determine the constitutionality of the ban on marriage equality in California, will happen December 6.
Around the world:
- Australian independent MP Andrew Wilkie has called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard for a conscience vote on marriage equality. A new poll shows more than three-quarters of Australians support both the vote and marriage equality.
- More a feature than a news item, but this New York Times piece on lesbians in India is a good read.
- Irish independent senator David Norris could become the country’s first openly gay president, after he entered the race upon hearing of a Facebook campaign urging him to do so.
- A Ugandan tabloid published pictures of the “top homosexuals” in the country, along with a banner reading, “Hang them,” reports the AP. Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin had reported on this two weeks ago.