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.
- Fox is now the most LGBT-inclusive broadcast TV network, but only 2.9 percent of all scripted regular characters this season will be LGBT, and none of them will be transgender or African-American.
- The President of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund offers “Why Tammy Baldwin Will Win” her Senate race.
- The New York Times suggests that “rights collide” as New York town clerks refuse to do their job of offering marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
- The White House has nominated out lesbian Alison Nathan for a federal judgeship on the U.S. District Court in New York and the Senate will be voting on her nomination in the coming weeks.
- Jamey Rodemeyer’s family has shared that Jamey’s bullies have cheered his death since his suicide, shouting “You’re better off dead!” at last week’s school dance. Watch his parents’ interview on The Today Show and his sister’s interview on last night’s Anderson Cooper 360:
- Campus Progress notes that Voter ID laws will likely disenfranchise transgender people.
- What impact will the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell have for women of color?
- The state of Ohio does not offer housing or employment protections based on sexual orientation or gender identity, but a new bill might fix that.
- Florida A&M University doesn’t have any LGBT nondiscrimination protections either.
- The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition will soon celebrate 10 years of serving the transgender community.
- Gay Irish presidential candidate David Norris officially has his name on the ballot.
- What can be learned from an intersex French bulldog?
- The animated cartoon Adventure Time might be getting a same-sex relationship.
- The lesbian couple kicked of a Southwest Airlines say they were booted for “one, modest kiss,” but Southwest now says Leisha Hailey and her partner were using “profane language” loudly and offered an “aggressive reaction” when asked to end their “excessive public display of affection.”
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