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 Canadian government is now contending that the same-sex marriages of foreign couples are only legal if those couples can marry in their home countries.
- Susan Allen won her election to the Minnesota State House, making her the first openly lesbian Native American elected to a state legislature, and she will strongly oppose Minnesota’s marriage discrimination amendment.
- Fox News’ views on same-sex marriage are so narrow it believes the rest of the media has a double standard when it talks about President Obama’s position on the issue.
- Is the real threat to the “institution of marriage” opposite-sex civil unions?
- Another gay binational couple faces the threat of deportation, which could be a particularly problematic for their four adopted children.
- A North Carolina church pastor has married her same-sex partner.
- The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department allegedly refuses to admit gay prisoners to its drug rehab program.
- A new California bill, AB 266, would ensure that transgender students are welcome to play on the sports teams of the gender they identify with.
- Gina Duncan could become Orange County, Florida’s first transgender commissioner.
- The Oxford City board has fired Lee Steele from its soccer club for his homophobic tweet against rugby star Gareth Thomas.
- Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 is one of the nation’s most gay-friendly employers.
- Brooklyn will host New York City’s first-ever gay wedding expo this weekend.
- Actress Aisha Tyler is HRC’s latest American for Marriage Equality:
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