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.
- In case you missed it: President Obama will not be protecting the LGBT employees of federal contractors with an executive order any time soon.
- The Human Rights Campaign is urging Mitt Romney to repudiate the endorsement of the race-baiting, parent-scaring National Organization for Marriage.
- The military families challenging the Defense of Marriage Act are requesting their case be expedited, and the Ninth Circuit has agreed to expedite another DOMA challenge, Golinski v. OPM.
- Los Angeles Mayor Anotnio Villaraigosa seems to be reclaiming “family values” and “fundamental liberty” as language about equality.
- A transgender woman in Virginia is collecting signatures to challenge requirements that trans people show proof of gender reassignment surgery to get driver’s licenses.
- St. Louis is helping support equal access to housing for its LGBT seniors.
- Canada’s Parliament is again considering non-discrimination protections for the transgender community.
- Activists in St. Petersburg, Russia “will not be silenced.”
- Chris Matthews still claims that the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins has never said anything virulently anti-gay on his show, but John Aravosis points out that he most certainly has.
- North Carolina artists are speaking out against Amendment One.
- Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are HRC’s latest Americans for Marriage Equality:
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