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.
- Homosexuality is quite common throughout the animal kingdom, but homophobia is unique to humanity.
- AP takes a look at LGBT youth homelessness in advance of the White House’s conference in Detroit.
- Meet Stephen Pidgeon, the leading opponent of marriage equality in Washington state.
- MSNBC has banned Faithful America’s ad challenging the network for hosting Tony Perkins, but has no problem continuing to invite the hate group leader on the air.
- Now that Sam Taylor has completed her term of combat service in Iraq, she can finally come out as transgender and transition.
- North Carolina’s Liberterian Party have come out against the discriminatory Amendment One.
- Racine, Wisconsin has extended benefits to employees’ domestic partners.
- Students at Western Connecticut State University protested yesterday after several anti-gay acts of bias took place on campus.
- Sam Houston State University has added gender identity and sexual orientation to its Equal Employment Opportunity policy.
- Students at Oklahoma University are pushing to become the first Big 12 school that offers gender-neutral housing.
- Ellen DeGeneres has joined the campaign against the MPAA to lower the rating on the documentary Bully so that more young people can see it.
- How can black masculinity grow in such a way to help end “black on black” anti-LGBT violence?
- The ladies of The View discussed Kirk Cameron’s anti-gay comments and the limits of free speech on Tuesday.
- George Takei eviscerates the homophobic and transphobic legislators in Tennessee with a quaint Wizard of Oz allegory:
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