Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s 8:45 AM round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but let us know what you’re checking out too. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality.
- Today, plaintiffs in the Proposition 8 trial will urge Judge James Ware to make public recordings of the original proceedings from January 2010. Both the New York Times and LA Times editorial boards endorsed this idea, pointing out that the Supreme Court said in 1947 that “what transpires in the court room is public property.”
- A new study finds strong evidence that a certain sequence of genetic code on the X chromosome in men contributes to a same-sex orientation.
- In case you missed it over the weekend, Rick Perry clarified he hasn’t “backed off anything” he wrote in his book Fed Up!, including presumably that “gay marriage will soon be the policy of the United States.”
- A Maryland group opposing marriage equality is asking citizens to feed lawmakers misinformation, including biased polling and inaccurate studies about same-sex parenting.
- Dan Choi’s court date is today for protesting at the White House fence. While the other protesters accepted six months probation, Choi plead not guilty.
- Joe Solmonese is going to step down as president of the Human Rights Campaign.
- Does Washington state have the votes to pass marriage equality next year?
- A Nebraska court has ruled that a lesbian woman can pursue custody and visitation with her son after her relationship ended with his biological mother because she had been acting as the boy’s parent.
- A large contingent of the United Methodist Church is pushing to make the denomination more gay-friendly.
- A conservative politician from Puerto Rico has been caught posting naked pictures on gay hook-up app Grindr. He claimed he was trying to document his weight loss.
- Linda Harvey of Mission America claimed last week “there’s no proof” LGBT people exist. Perhaps she’s never met one of us?
- The Catholic League’s Bill Donahue recently compared the gay rights movement to Apartheid, claiming in the same interview that conservative groups never pressure companies to take sides in the culture war.
- The Philadelphia Phillies say, “It Gets Better.”
- A teen in Northumberland, Ontario fears coming out because his life might be in danger.
- Lady Gaga opened last night’s MTV Video Music Awards with a monologue and performance as her drag king persona, Jo Calderone. Ironically, Gaga won the award for “Best Female Performer.” Watch it:
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