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.
- President Obama prepares his campaign pitch to gay voters. Richard Socarides responds.
- LGBT staffers say it’s still difficult being gay on Capitol Hill.
- Did you miss last night’s Stop SB 48 conference call? Take a peek at how opponents of LGBT-inclusive education are mobilizing in California.
- Rather than endure a retrial, Brandon McInerney has pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder for killing classmate Lawrence King and been sentenced to 21 years in jail.
- Pennsylvania legislators have formed an LGBT Equality Caucus for the first time.
- Kalamazoo’s City Commission has voted to oppose the Michigan legislature’s proposed anti-LGBT bills.
- Three Chicago-area transgender people tell their stories.
- The Religious Right has been relatively silent on the United Nations’ new report on homophobic and transphobic violence around the world.
- Media Matters has dubbed Fox News’ Dr. Keith Ablow “Misinformer of the Year on LGBT issues.”
- Two Vancouver school board members are taking fire for filming videos for the National Organization for Marriage, but they say NOM misled them.
- What impact did the Iraq War have on Iraqi gays?
- The British Government rejects the idea that Christians who wrongfully imposed their beliefs in professional settings have suffered discrimination.
- Chuck Norris has a problem with gay people… and facts.
- Unicorn Booty chats with gay, Mormon country singer Justin Utley.
- Need a reason to <3 NY? How about a marriage after 64 years of being together?
- GetEQUAL and an exiled couple call on the Department of Homeland Security to stop deporting same-sex binational couples:
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