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.
- A Nebraska Senate panel has prevented a bill that would ban municipal nondiscrimination protections from advancing, which means LGBT protections in Omaha can likely proceed.
- Grindr, the gay hook-up app, is getting political with Grindr for Equality.
- Why does Chris Matthews have a problem with what Franklin Graham says on MSNBC, but tolerates Tony Perkins‘ appearances on the network?
- Pam Spaulding explains why fighting the anti-business, anti-family, anti-LGBT amendment in North Carolina is important.
- Tampa may be the next Florida municipality to create a domestic partnership registry.
- The mayor of La Grande, Oregon has apologized for homophobic comments he made on his Facebook page, including calling same-sex unions an “abomination.”
- Republican lawmakers in Indiana are going out of their way to ban the new license plate that benefits LGBT youth.
- Learn more about Ithaca College’s new voice modification program for transgender individuals.
- The British Education Secretary has ruled that Catholic schools can condemn homosexuality so long as the beliefs are not conveyed in ways that “harange, harass, or berate” gay and lesbian students.
- A new poll shows 73 percent of Irish citizens support marriage equality.
- Watch teenage Youtuber Mallow610 come out to his mom:
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