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.
- Another young gay man has committed suicide. Eric James Borges was an intern for The Trevor Project, but he had been rejected by his family — his mother even tried to exorcise him to “cure” him of his homosexuality — and bullied by peers.
- The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network has a new guide for veterans seeking to change their discharge under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
- Anti-gay groups are not pleased with efforts from health education advocacy organizations seeking to discuss LGBT issues in grade school curricula.
- The Family Research Council is praying against marriage equality again — this time in Maryland, Maine, and New Hampshire.
- Orlando opened its domestic partner registry yesterday, recognizing same-sex couples in Central Florida for the first time.
- The New Jersey teacher who called homosexuality a “perverted sin” that “breeds like cancer” may soon be losing her job.
- The California bill that would have made student athletics transgender-inclusive has been withdrawn.
- A group of religious conservatives are whining again that they’re the “victims” of the “culture war.”
- Speaking of the “culture war,” Maggie Gallagher is using Rick Santorum to raise money for her Culture War Victory Fund.
- Faithful America is running two petitions, one against MSNBC for continuing to host hate group leaders like Tony Perkins, and one against Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal for praying for President Obama’s death.
- CNN looks at a new film based on a Turkish gay honor killing:
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