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.
- Though LGBT issues were not addressed in last night’s debate, Rick Santorum offered that Republicans could attract Latino voters by encouraging them to oppose LGBT rights.
- The Senate will vote to reauthorize the Elementary & Secondary Education Act this week, which could provide an opportunity to include LGBT anti-bullying measures.
- Charles Blow takes to the New York Times to share his testimony of being bullied and attempting suicide.
- Equality North Carolina points out that an overwhelming number of young people oppose the proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and support legal recognition of same-sex couples.
- A new study finds that 10 percent of self-identified straight men have sex with other men, including 10 percent of all married men in the sample.
- Amtrak’s wireless service appears to block many LGBT news sites, listing them as porn.
- Sarah Palin seems to want to get close to hate groups like the American Family Association.
- North Carolina State University’s GLBT Center was hit with vandalism this week, including the words, “Fags burn” and “die.”
- Three men in Turkish-occupied Cyprus were arrested for “conspiring to have a sexual intercourse against the order of nature,” a charge that could carry a penalty of up to five years in prison.
- A Malaysian pastor’s same-sex marriage in New York could have an impact across the world.
- Armenians are largely intolerant of the LGBT community.
- Are men’s high heels here to stay?
- Watch our own Alyssa Rosenberg moderate a panel with Husbands‘ Jane Espenson, Sean Hemeon, and Cheeks.
- Watch Colorado allies “make it better” for LGBT youth, including Sens. Michael Bennet (D) and Mark Udall (D), Gov. John Hickenlooper (D), Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, and Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks:
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