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.
- Navy veteran Carmen Cardona is challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act after she was denied an increase to her disability compensation because her new spouse was of the same sex.
- Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross interviewed OutServe founder 1st Lt. Josh Seefried (aka “J.D. Smith”) and his partner, Lt. Karl Johnson, on the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
- Today the Senate will vote on the nomination of out lesbian Alison Nathan to be a federal judge in the Southern District of New York.
- Lawmakers in New York City are calling for a law to parallel California’s FAIR Education Act, which makes school curricula LGBT-inclusive.
- Though the Stop SB48 campaign failed to get enough signatures for a referendum repealing the FAIR Education Act, they may still have other opportunities to try to undo the law.
- Watch as same-sex couples apply for marriage licenses in Ashville, North Carolina.
- Family Research Council’s Values Voter bus got about 20 people to attend its stop in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Equality Matters reports that the National Organization for Marriage is using the Irish Presidential race to promote the myth that gays are pedophiles.
- Here are more details about the recent study showing gay men face “significant” hiring discrimination.
- Lesbians are more at risk for cancer, but what is being done about it?
- GAY HISTORY: Learn about the lesbian who composed “America the Beautiful” and “A Queer History of the United States.”
- A “Christian Response to Gay Bullying” completely misses the point by reinforcing the notion that Christians shouldn’t tolerate homosexuality.
- A new study shows that the life expectancy for people living with HIV has increased by 15 years over the last decade.
- British party chiefs are calling for the firing of senior Tory councilor James Maliff, who has already been suspended after comparing same-sex marriage to bestiality on Twitter this week.
- An anti-gay proselytizer is challenging Canada’s laws against hate speech.
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