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.
- This weekend, the Democratic Party’s platform drafting committee held a hearing on adding marriage equality language as plank of the platform.
- Gay activists protested an appearance by Kirk Cameron in New Jersey on Saturday.
- Thanks to bone marrow transplants and further medication, two men now seem to be free of HIV.
- The Labor Department may be ignoring protections now available for transgender employees of federal contractors.
- A new report highlights the significant needs of elders with diverse identities, including LGBT.
- In a Connecticut race, GOProud chose to endorse the Republican with the anti-gay record instead of the candidate with the pro-gay record, further demonstrating that the group has little interest in LGBT equality.
- New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key has said he will support a proposed marriage equality bill.
- Oxford University will now allow transgender students to wear formal dress that matches the gender with which they identify.
- Vietnam could become the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.
- The “Mitt Gets Worse” Campaign has transformed its Facebook page into a timeline of Mitt Romney’s anti-LGBT record.
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