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 as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality.
- The American Independent profiles the three conservative groups that pushed for North Carolina’s proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships.
- Third Way has launched the “Commitment Campaign,” a bipartisan effort to reframe the marriage equality fight around the value of commitment.
- Rob Reiner is planning to make a film about the Proposition 8 trial.
- A new study from Ireland shows that older gay people are more likely to fear rejection from friends and family and thus avoid coming out.
- NPR takes a look at the struggle to pass LGBT non-discrimination protections in Holland, Michigan.
- Hundreds rallied for marriage equality in Cincinnati, Ohio this weekend.
- Houston’s openly lesbian mayor Annise Parker is expected to win reelection.
- A last-minute mailer campaign in Fairfax County attempts to smear Republican state Senate candidate Patrick Forrest as “openly homosexual.”
- The UK has lifted it ban on gay men donating blood — but only if they haven’t had sex for a full year.
- British Conservatives may lose support from Christian church-goers if they support marriage equality.
- “A Day With HIV In America” has a new interactive gallery to explore.
- Richard Dawkins offers an evolutionary explanation for the possibility of a gay gene (language NSFW):
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