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 White House reflects on the one-year anniversary of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal.
- The “Red Kettle Menace” plays damage control on LGBT issues.
- Illinois has issued 3,729 civil unions since June in all but one county.
- Hawaii hotels anticipate a tourism boost when civil unions become legal January 1.
- Do blacks sympathize with the gay-rights movement?
- Another metropolitan newspaper highlights the lives and struggles of transgender people.
- Lance Bass explains why not to use the word “tranny” after learning the hard way.
- A same-sex couple married in Spain is looking to have their marriage recognized in France.
- Frank Mugisha explains that Uganda isn’t struggling with the Western import of homosexuality, but with the Western import of homophobia.
- The Australian intersex community reaches out to Sec. Hillary Clinton.
- Pinkwashing fail: An Israeli textbook calls homosexuality a disorder.
- Three-year-old Riley: “Some girls like superheroes, some girls like princesses! Some boys like superheroes, some boys like princesses! So why do all the girls have to buy pink stuff and all the boys have to buy different color stuff?”:
- Happy holidays from the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Ambassadors:
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