Morning Sweep

The Binghamton City Council has passed a law to outlaw discrimination against transgender individuals.

Several Central Islip legislators are calling for the passage of a federal hate crimes bill after the two brutal immigrant killings that have happened in the past six weeks.

Queerty has an interview with the R.N.C’s Online Communications Manager, who says he believes his party has failed to embrace "the emerging role of gays in the Party and society at large – not as outcasts, but as equals."