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.
- NBC Nightly News reports on the one year anniversary of President Obama signing the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
- Equality Matters highlights the National Organization for Marriage’s top ten gaffes of 2011.
- It seems that the group trying to repeal marriage equality in New Hampshire has some close ties to the hate group MassResistance.
- Catholic Cardinal Francis George is worried that Chicago’s gay pride parade may “morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan” against Catholicism.
- For the first time, Atlanta has a shelter for homeless LGBT youth.
- Minnesota Republican Senators will vote next week on a successor to caucus leader Amy Koch, who resigned last week after it was revealed she had an affair with a staffer. In the meantime, Huffington Post is allowing everybody to vote on her marriage.
- The Main Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that ExpressJet discriminated against employee Edward Russell for his sexual orientation, awarding Russell $500,000 in damages.
- Gay and bisexual men in Kenya are being trafficked to Gulf states as sex slaves.
- The Australian Psychological Society has officially endorsed marriage equality.
- The Walt Disney company says, “It Gets Better.”
- Watch: Gay football player Adam Goddard challenges President Obama’s position on marriage equality in a poetry slam called “Yes We Can But No We Haven’t“:
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