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.
- Apparently, repealing marriage equality is no longer a priority for New Hampshire Republicans.
- Rolling Stone takes an in-depth look at Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District and the extreme anti-gay climate that evangelical Christians have helped create. (See our coverage of Anoka-Hennepin here.)
- Rabidly anti-gay Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) is now being supported by a group standing up for oppressed white, heterosexual, Christian men called “Sit-ins for Stacey,” but there’s a disclaimer.
- Opponents of marriage equality in Washington state are already organizing to collect signatures for a ballot referendum, and they’ve already raised $1 million from “out of state.”
- Florists, wedding planners, and photographers in Kitsap County, Washington, are already looking forward to increased business when the marriage equality bill passes.
- At first, St. Joseph’s University’s contest for couples who met at their alma mater was for straight couples only, but has responded to pressure and allowed a same-sex couple to enter.
- The Advocate ponders whether Democrats will help fight anti-gay initiatives.
- The New York Times has taken to using scare quotes to describe — or mock — the conservative rhetoric of “religious liberty.”
- According to a Match.com survey, about 90 percent of American singles feel there are “no acceptable excuses” for infidelity in a political candidate. It also found that gays and lesbians are looking for the same qualities in partners as straight singles.
- “Eminent Outlaws” offers a critical and biographical survey of America’s gay writers in the late 20th Century.
- Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire (D) has joined HRC’s “Americans for Marriage Equality” campaign.
- Zach, the Ohio gay teen who was brutally beaten in school last fall, is now speaking out with his mom, Becky Collins.
- In this week’s editorial cartoon in the Dallas Voice, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) contemplates other popular votes:
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