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.
- Thousands marched in yesterday’s Keep the Promise on AIDS demonstration in Washington.
- Hundreds turned out for an impromptu vigil in Lincoln, Nebraska for a woman who was brutally attacked and accosted with anti-gay rhetoric in a home invasion.
- How will transgender identities be addressed in the new psychiatry diagnostic manual?
- According to the University of North Carolina, the state’s recently passed Amendment One does not prevent domestic partner benefits.
- A British headmaster tried to prevent a transgender student from taking her graduation exams, and she responded by showing him the Equality Act.
- The Senate of Liberia has unanimously approved a bill that would treat same-sex marriage as a second degree felony.
- Another straight Eagle Scout has returned his badge in protest of the Boy Scouts’ anti-gay policy, as many did as part of the Scouting for All movement ten years ago.
- Meet the 14 openly gay athletes at the 2012 Olympics.
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