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 is National Coming Out Day! Queerty highlights the day by noting eight important coming out stories we’ve heard this year.
- A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center examines the epic role the Family Research Council and American Family Association have played in the “demonization of LGBT people.”
- The Obama administration may be allowing a same-sex binational couple to be separated by deportation.
- California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has signed several new LGBT laws into effect, including one that clarifies nondiscrimination protections for transgender people, one that makes it easier for transgender people to update their gender documentation, and Seth’s Law, which calls for better training and guidelines for schools to respond to bullying. Equality California points out that 10 of the 12 bills it has sponsored passed this year.
- Thirty LGBT publications are commemorating Gay History Month by breaking down the closet door on American history.
- Read the New York Times obituary for gay rights leader Paula Ettelbrick.
- Michigan Senator John Gleason (D) is protesting the failure of several anti-bullying laws — and the proud laughter of the Republicans who defeated them — with a sit-in.
- VIDEOS: Anderson Cooper hosted a townhall on bullying at Rutgers University.
- The Washington Post calls for DC to pass better anti-bullying legislation.
- LGBTPOV points out how skewed ABC’s 20/20 report on Brandon McInerney’s trial was.
- North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue says she supports marriage between a man and a woman, but will oppose the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
- The 2012 Democratic National Convention will take steps to include the LGBT community when it comes to Charlotte, North Carolina next year.
- The head of the North Carolina Family Policy Council says that banning same-sex marriage will create a “more orderly civil society.”
- The National Organization for Marriage’s presidential pledge has been scrubbed to eliminate a call for “investigations” into the lives of LGBT Americans.
- A Fort Drum soldier tells his story about what it’s like to be gay in the military.
- Great Britain plans to cut aid to African countries that persecute gays.
- A new survey shows that the British judiciary is still plagued by homophobia.
- Glasgow’s Catholic Archbishop, Mario Conti, has suggested that marriage equality would lead to “gross discrimination” against Christians.
- A leader in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana has suggested (“observed”) that homosexuality is largely caused by poverty and unemployment.
- Betty White says she thinks the LGBT community embraces her for the racy characters she plays and her love of animals.
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