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.
- A former Library of Congress employee is suing, accusing his supervisor of harassing and humiliating him for over a year with anti-gay rhetoric.
- According to HRC’s Congressional score cards, Congress’ support of marriage equality lags far behind that of the public.
- HRC is donating $1,000,000 across the four states with marriage ballot campaigns (Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington).
- Washington, DC’s Office of Human Rights has launched a campaign to fight anti-transgender discrimination.
- Meet Jon and Nedo, a married binational same-sex couple who may be separated by deportation.
- Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson endorsed an effort to repeal Ohio’s ban on same-sex marriage.
- Despite some police harassment and arrests, LGBT activists held a success Pride weekend in Uganda, where a “Kill the Gays” law is still being considered. On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Uganda’s activists for standing strong in spite of the nation’s homophobic culture.
- Hundreds marched in Nepal in support of LGBT rights this weekend.
- Vietnam also held its first gay pride parade.
- Poland’s Parliament rejected a bill to create same-sex civil unions.
- The Australian state of Tasmania plans to advance marriage equality before the end of the year.
- The magazine Men’s Health seems to believe that all of its readers are straight.
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