Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but please let us know what stories you’re following as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality.
- Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) has been spending taxpayers’ money to distribute lie-riddled anti-gay mailers.
- Pressure is again mounting to advance the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in the Senate.
- Married same-sex couples face two choices on their federal income taxes: lie by identifying as single or break the law.
- Opponents of Maryland’s new marriage equality law have begun collecting signatures for a referendum.
- The Chicago City Council is considering new guidelines for how police are trained to respect transgender people.
- Folly Beach, South Carolina, unanimously passed an ordinance to prevent anti-LGBT discrimination in public accommodations this week.
- Anchorage, Alaska is preparing to vote on its anti-discrimination ordinance.
- Sixteen-year-old Anoka-Hennepin lesbian student Ebonie Richardson explains why she sued her school for not protecting her from bullying.
- The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles is partnering with the “It Gets Better” Project for a nationwide concert tour.
- Brigham Young University student Nick Norman came out this week in the school’s independent newspaper.
- Katie Goodman and company share a fun new “Homophobia Song.” Take a listen:
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