{"id":1850,"date":"2015-05-03T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2015-05-03T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T15:49:14","slug":"randy-berry-starts-role-as-state-departments-lgbt-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1850","title":{"rendered":"Randy Berry starts role as State Department&#8217;s LGBT envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman (thanks to Chris Boire for the head&#8217;s up)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As Randy Berry begins his role as the United States State Department&#8217;s first ever LGBT envoy, he has a lot on his plate. He has been instructed by Secretary John Kerry to maintain the Department&#8217;s internal LGBT policies and to administer them in the many far-flung embassies and missions that the State Department has around the world while simultaneously working with local groups and governments to extend LGBT rights abroad. There&#8217;s an interesting write-up of Berry in USA Today of how he sees his new role and what all it will entail. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2015\/04\/26\/us-diplomat-champion-for-lgbt-people\/26314885\/\">Read the full profile here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman (thanks to Chris Boire for the head&#8217;s up) As Randy Berry begins his role as the United States State Department&#8217;s first ever LGBT envoy, he has a lot on his plate. He has been instructed by Secretary John Kerry to maintain the Department&#8217;s internal LGBT policies and to administer them in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","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\/1850","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=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}