{"id":1179,"date":"2014-08-21T20:31:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T01:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2014-08-21T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T01:31:13","slug":"vikings-donate-to-lgbt-rights-groups-to-settle-kluwe-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1179","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Donate to LGBT Rights Groups to Settle Kluwe Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier,\u00a0<a title=\"MLB Hires Ambassador for Inclusion; Kluwe Threatens to Sue Former Team\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1073\"><em>GLBT News\u00a0<\/em>reported<\/a> that Chris Kluwe was suing his former NFL team, the Minnesota Vikings, due to their unwillingness to release a report detailing that organization&#8217;s alleged homophobia and anti-LGBT practices. The Vikings announced that Kluwe&#8217;s termination had nothing to do with his staunch pro-LGBT stance, however.<\/p>\n<p>To settle the threatened suit, the Vikings have agreed to donate an undisclosed sum to five different LGBT-related charities over the next five years. Via<a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/vikings-donate-to-gay-rights-groups-to-settle-kluwe-lawsuit\"> Talking Points Memo<\/a>: &#8220;<span style=\"color: #444444;\">It also includes sensitivity training throughout the organization and plans for a national symposium on LGBT tolerance in Minneapolis in the spring.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Earlier,\u00a0GLBT News\u00a0reported that Chris Kluwe was suing his former NFL team, the Minnesota Vikings, due to their unwillingness to release a report detailing that organization&#8217;s alleged homophobia and anti-LGBT practices. The Vikings announced that Kluwe&#8217;s termination had nothing to do with his staunch pro-LGBT stance, however. To settle the threatened suit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}