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.
- Equality California and the National Center for Lesbian Rights want to help defend California’s new law banning ex-gay therapy for minors.
- Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) believes marriage equality is a religious and “socioeconomic” issue and that gay couples make inferior parents.
- Alabama state Rep. Daniel Boman (D) is challenging Congressman Rob Aderhold (R) for his seat by deplorably calling him a self-hating closet case. Aderholt’s campaign responded, “When someone is making a fool of himself, we hate to interrupt.”
- New analysis shows that transgender people in Texas face very high rates of discrimination.
- FOX News supported “Spirit Day,” despite promulgating anti-LGBT bullying all the time.
- The family of a teenage Chicago shooting victim believe he was targeted because he was gay.
- The ironically named Liberty Ridge, a farm frequently used as a wedding venue in New York, has refused to rent to a same-sex couple.
- Kansas state Rep. Jan Pauls (D) fears she will be targeted for violence because of her anti-gay views.
- France has delayed debates on marriage equality, raising fears the government may be backing down.
- Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe is prepared to debate an empty chair on same-sex marriage because no one will debate him in public.
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