Friday the 24th on "This Way Out"

Israel's Supreme Court rules that the Jerusalem municipal government must provide funding to the LGBT Open House because the city funds other community groups and because anti-gay bias "has no place in the 21st century"; United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for the repeal of all laws around the world that discriminate against lesbians and gay men; in a still-unfolding story, leading Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseyev is abducted from a Moscow airport by unidentified officials, followed by contradictory media reports about what happened to him; Nepal's only openly-gay lawmaker Sunil Pant is among 70 demonstrators detained at a protest outside the P.M.'s office demanding a "third sex" option on national identification documents for transgender people, while Australian Defense Force chief Angus Houston announces the end of a ban on military service by transgender people, as a second high-profile federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy begins in the state of Washington, and a vote to consider a major military spending bill that includes repeal of the policy looms in the U.S. Senate; several openly gay and lesbian candidates win U.S. primary victories while a homophobic "Tea Party" candidate wins the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate in Delaware; and lesbians from across Europe gather in Eressos, Lesbos for the Greek island village's 10th annual International Women's Festiva