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.
- If the NBA can protect players from discrimination, why can’t the federal government?
- Support for Proposition 8 may have motivated many Democrats to leave the Mormon Church.
- Truth Wins Out offers the “Top 10 Ex-Gay Stories of 2011.”
- A record number of students attended California’s state-wide Gay-Straight Alliance conference on Saturday.
- Applications are now available for Point Foundation scholarships for LGBT students.
- The National Organization for Marriage is feigning desperation to do some end-of-year fundraising.
- Meanwhile, NOM’s Ruth Institute published then pulled a post calling atheists “whiny, sniveling, little pusillanimous cowards” and “a bunch of feeble fakers.”
- Fox News used the story of the Macy’s employee who insisted on discriminating against a transgender customer as an opportunity to further disparage the customer.
- Janet Mock talks about coming out to her boyfriend as trans.
- Jersey Shore‘s Vinny Guadagnino says that his heart breaks for LGBT youth who are bullied.
- Two gay athletes who were out in college, Andrew Goldstein and David Farber, talk to high school students about homophobia in sports.
- The WWE works with GLAAD to fight anti-LGBT bullying:
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