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The Morning Pride: July 5, 2012

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.

- The United Methodist Church in the Northwest has endorsed Washington’s Referendum 74, which upholds the state’s marriage equality law.

- Is One Million Moms altering the comments people submit with its form to companies it is protesting and boycotting?

- California conservative groups have until this weekend to finish collecting signatures to overturn the FAIR Education Act, which ensures that school curricula are LGBT-inclusive.

- A new poll finds that 62 percent of Canadians support full marriage equality.

- A trans student at an Ontario high school was named prom queen.

- Over half of gay teens in the UK are bullied at school and 99 percent of all students hear homophobic language in school.

- Spain’s Constitutional Court has delayed ruling on the country’s same-sex marriage law.

- A Swedish judge made a despicable ruling that a woman could not have been raped simply because she is transgender.

- Zimbabwe police are going to charge a gay rights group with insulting President Robert Mugabe.

- Frank Ocean of the hip-hop group Odd Future has come out as gay.

- The UK group Kaleidoscope Trust asks, What would it be like if it were illegal to be you?

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