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.
- According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the FAMiLY LEADER cannot be investigated for misusing federal funding to support its anti-marriage equality efforts because the organization is no longer a grantee.
- Lt. Dan Choi’s trial continues today in DC for his protest against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell on the White House fence. Choi plead not guilty to federal charges of disorderly conduct and could face a fine and up to six months in jail if found guilty.
- Questions still remain about an off-duty DC police officer who allegedly shot at several transgender women and their friends and also was driving drunk.
- New York City’s not-so-secret secret: Mayor Bloomberg will endorse City Council speaker Christine Quinn to replace succeed him as mayor in 2013.
- Next season’s Dancing with the Stars will feature its first trans contestant, Chaz Bono, as well as Carson Kressley from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
- More than 500 viewers have complained to the BBC that Torchwood’s gay sex scenes were “pointless,” but one wonders: how many complaints have the straight sex scenes gotten?
- Glitter bombing is quickly becoming a popular form of protest, but it could come with consequences or backlash.
- PBS Newshour takes a look at the 2010 Census data on same-sex couples.
- Equality California’s Roland Palencia has described those opposed to the FAIR Education Act as “dangerous extremists” leading campaigns of “persecution.”
- According to an El Paso priest, “pastoral care for homosexuals” involves calling them “immoral,” “putrid,” and “depraved.”
- MTV’s “Best New Artist” Tyler the Creator used the word “faggot” 213 times on his latest album.
- The Gay Community Center of Richmond has relaunched a 1987 billboard campaign that reads, “Someone You Know Is Gay, Maybe Someone You Love…”
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