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: Last night, the Civil Unions Act advanced out of the Colorado House Judiciary Committee, the bill’s biggest hurdle.
- The Associated Press highlights how LGBT activists continue to pressure President Obama on a nondiscrimination executive order and same-sex marriage.
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s recent decision that transgender employees are protected under federal law will “almost certainly impact” federal contractor rules.
- Chelsea Clinton, Jason Mraz, and a slew of other people oppose North Carolina’s Amendment One.
- According to a Wake Forest University law professor, the latest ad from Amendment One’s proponents “completely misses the point” on domestic violence protections.
- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s (I) new city budget includes severe cuts to youth homeless shelters.
- A proposed nondiscrimination ordinance in Jacksonville, Florida has garnered the support of 12 former chairs of the region’s Chamber of Commerce.
- CeCe McDonald, a trans woman in Minnesota, has plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter, though reports suggest she was defending herself from attacks to her race and gender.
- Exodus International, an umbrella organization for ex-gay ministries, has canceled its upcoming “Love Won Out” conference due to a lack of interest.
- Are conservatives taking aim at Campbell’s Soup for their next unsuccessful anti-gay boycott?
- The outgoing student body president at American University came out this week as trans.
- This week’s editorial cartoon in the Dallas Voice takes aim at Amendment One:
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