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.
- Benjamin Franklin was gay-friendly.
- Watch as an Ohio teenager is assaulted by a bully in a classroom for being gay — this is the fear many LGBT youth live with daily.
- Microsoft and Yahoo have joined the club of companies reimbursing employees for the tax burden on their same-sex partner’s health benefits.
-Why Marriage Matters Maine has released two ads to support their signature collecting to pass marriage equality.
- Minnesota Atheists is supporting the fight for marriage equality.
- The National Organization for Marriage continues to use disingenuous photos on their New Hampshire anti-equality website. The group has now spent $27,325.22 trying to insert the issue of marriage into an Iowa Senate race.
- Truth Wins Out responds to Linda Harvey’s threat of a law suit: “Bring it on.”
- Yale School of Medicine is targeting LGBTQ applicants for the first time. (Don’t tell Linda Harvey.)
- Chicago businesses are committing to a “T-Friendly Bathroom Initiative,” pledging not to discriminate against a transgender person’s choice of bathroom.
- Why Uganda’s anti-gay legislation is the world’s business.
- The Brisbane Times takes a look inside the ex-gay ministries of Australia.
- A Canadian MP is being challenged for his participation in an anti-bullying video given he previously has condemned homosexuality as a sin.
- Welsh rugby player Jed Hooper has come out as gay.
- This week’s editorial cartoon from the Dallas Voice takes a cold look at a bully’s perspective:
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