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.
- The Huffington Post highlights 25 anti-LGBT villains of 2012.
- Equality Matters highlights the National Organization for Marriage’s ten biggest fails of 2012.
- Outgoing Rep. Charles Bass (R-NH) became the third Republican to support repealing the Defense of Marriage Act before leaving office.
- A Change.org petition is calling on the National Geographic Channel to condemn the Boy Scouts of America’s anti-gay policies before airing its new show, Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout?
- The state of Kansas is punishing a lesbian couple’s family by suing their sperm donor for child support.
- A Baptist Church in Iowa City has decided to begin recognizing same-sex marriages.
- A pizza food truck refused to serve a customer that was accosting a gay couple, and its other patrons stood up for the couple as well.
- Two polls show a majority of Brits support marriage equality.
- Mexico has apparently lifted its ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood.
- In Argentina, 5,839 same-sex couples have gotten married since 2010, and 1,720 transgender people have obtained new IDs since they were able in 2012.
- Torii Hunter of the Detroit Tigers says that “as a Christian,” he would find it “difficult and uncomfortable” to accept openly gay baseball players.
- In what may be a first, ESPN showed an openly gay male pro athlete, bowling champion Scott Norton, kissing his husband on the air:
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