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The Morning Pride: October 11, 2013

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.

– Happy National Coming Out Day!!!

– A new California law will ensure that LGBT seniors will receive competent and respectful care.

– The Illinois Restaurant Association has endorsed marriage equality.

– Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) defends his opposition to marriage equality because it’s what he “believed in all my life.”

– Watch as a North Carolina same-sex couple is denied a marriage permit in an emotional protest of the state’s ban.

– Conservatives are trying to recall one of the San Antonio Councilmembers who supported the LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance.

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– A father who was walking across the country to honor his gay son who committed suicide was struck by a semi-truck on a rural highway in Colorado and killed.

– Christian schools in Georgia are exploiting millions of dollars in public funding while openly discriminating against gay students.

– Pat Robertson believes AIDS is the result of a failed polio experiment.

– A group of ex-gay activists believe they are just as persecuted as the Jews in Nazi Germany.

– Watch as Russian police continue to arrest LGBT activists, complete with the support of homophobic onlookers.

– A new LGBT campaign, Honor 6, is encouraging Olympic athletes to uphold Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter, which opposes discrimination.

– Cyprus has added sexual orientation and gender identity to its nondiscrimination laws.

– The Postal Service intends to honor gay activist Harvey Milk on a postage stamp next year.

– HRC celebrates 25 years of National Coming Out Day: