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 California Supreme Court is expected to rule today on the issue of standing in the Proposition 8 case.
- The National Organization for Marriage and other religious rights groups are trying to capitalize on a false rumor that Senate Democrats are planning to attach DOMA repeal to the Defense Authorization Bill.
- Meanwhile, NOM continues to paint the LGBT movement as hostile, including suggesting gays “want to rip Genesis out of our Bibles.”
- A Veterans Affairs nurse has been removed from seeing patients after anti-gay charges.
- The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear arguments in the case of a transgender woman who was illegally fired from her state job after transitioning.
- Activists in Helena, Montana begin organizing for nondiscrimination protections.
- Westminster College struggles with offering faculty same-sex partners benefits.
- James Hormel, who was the first openly gay U.S. ambassador, writes about the importance of understanding sexual orientation is not a choice.
- The National Center for Transgender Equality has released a model district policy to help schools create welcoming environments for students of all gender identities.
- British families are complaining about a new curriculum that teaches elementary school children about LGBT people. Watch a video of the curriculum in action.
- Scott Cronick and David Gorshein describe the experience of marrying on the Conan O’Brien show.
- The Huffington Post highlights Queer Kids through photography.
- The latest HRC American for Marriage Equality is Actress and Playwright Katori Hall.
- Everynone asks, “Who’s a loser?”:
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