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The Morning Pride: May 1, 2014

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.

– Vice President Joe Biden sees “no downside” to President Obama issuing an executive order protecting the LGBT employees of federal contractors.

– Though a judge has ruled that Ohio must recognize same-sex marriages from other states, a group of Ohio couples is now suing for the right to marry in their home state.

– A South Carolina Senate panel has restored the university funding that the House stripped from the budget to punish two schools for teaching LGBT-inclusive books.

– A transgender inmate is suing Ohio for access to hormone therapy.

– The Kentucky print shop Herald Embroidery is continuing to insist it will not produce “content promoting homosexuality.”

– Northern Ireland has once again voted down marriage equality.

– Brunei will begin implementing its Sharia Law penal code today, which will eventually include death by stoning for homosexuality.

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– Michelangelo Signorile examines the double standard for Clippers owner Donald Sterling and former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich.