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.
- According to the Williams Institute, the first three years of marriage equality in Rhode Island could generate $1.2 million in new government revenue.
- An extensive new survey reveals how pervasive anti-LGBT school and workplace discrimination is in Anchorage, Alaska.
- The Student Government Association of UNC Charlotte passed a resolution this week opposing North Carolina’s Amendment 1.
- Catholic schools students in Canada want the right to call their clubs “gay-straight alliances,” instead of “Respecting Difference” clubs as dictated by the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association.
- What’s it like to start a gay-straight alliance in the South?
- Vermont’s Norwich University will be the first military university to hold a pride week.
- The extremists at WorldNetDaily are hawking a new poll they conducted that found some people believe same-sex marriage equality makes a compelling case for polygamy.
- Truth Wins Out provides an in-depth investigation of the “stealth evangelism” and anti-LGBT connections of Invisible Children, the organization responsible for Kony 2012.
- The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has strongly affirmed LGBT rights in a ruling protecting a Chilean lesbian judge’s right to custody of her children.
- Northern Ireland is not going to be lifting its ban on same-sex adoption anytime soon.
- Finland will soon start debating marriage equality.
- The new anti-gay “propaganda” laws in St. Petersburg, Russia will make Vladimir Putin the odd-one-out at May’s G-8 conference.
- Intel’s new Facebook app censors the word “gay.”
- Focus on the Family’s response to the Day of Silence should more accurately be called a “Day of Monologue,” with “conversation cards” that more accurately look like this:
Previous in TP LGBT
By clicking and submitting a comment I acknowledge the ThinkProgress Privacy Policy and agree to the ThinkProgress Terms of Use. I understand that my comments are also being governed by Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policies as applicable, which can be found here.