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.
- According to the White House’s Valerie Jarrett, President Obama was “so absolutely delighted” by the marriage equality wins this week.
- The Human Rights Campaign is calling for an openly LGBT cabinet member in Obama’s second term.
- A prominent election exit poll asked if voters were gay, lesbian, or bisexual, but not if they were transgender.
- Equality Matters notes that though many newspapers made efforts to debunk anti-equality ads, many fell into the trap of ignoring the extremism also promoted by the campaigning anti-gay groups.
- Maryland’s only openly gay state Senator, Rich Madaleno (D), plans to get a marriage certificate with his husband, but they’ve already been married for 11 years.
- RightWingWatch has a round-up of the religious right’s reaction to Obama’s re-election.
- Malawi’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General Ralph Kasambara is refuting reports that the country has suspended its anti-homosexuality law.
- A pair of same-sex King penguins in a Danish Zoo are parenting a chick of their own and zookeepers call them “natural parents.”
- Another historic moment: Watch as Mainers United for Marriage got the news Tuesday night that marriage equality had passed:
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