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.
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has been sworn in as the first openly gay U.S. Senator.
- As expected, marriage equality bills were introduced yesterday in the Rhode Island House and Senate.
- Apparently some offices in the Pentagon block blogs like Towleroad and AMERICAblog for being “LGBT.”
- Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is encouraging lawmakers in his home state to pass marriage equality.
- Though she may not get a chance to vote for it, outgoing Republican Illinois state Rep. Rosemary Mulligan said she’d be willing to support a marriage equality bill.
- Another Illinois bishop is attacking marriage equality because same-sex couples can only “imitate” the “committed, intimate love” between procreating heterosexual couples.
- How one young man explored the intersection between his gay identity and his Native American identity.
- A new study suggests that bi men who conceal their same-sex attractions are more likely to experience depression, anxiety, and other emotional problems.
- Meet Eric Marcoux and Eugene Woodworth, an Oregon couple who have been together for almost 60 years.
- Dan Savage offers his “straight up thanks” to all of the allies who supported LGBT equality in the 2012 election:
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