{"id":1926,"date":"2015-05-31T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2015-05-31T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:54:04","slug":"greenland-legalizes-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1926","title":{"rendered":"Greenland legalizes same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The legislature of the semi-autonomous state of Greenland within Denmark voted unanimously this week to extend full marriage recognition to same-sex couples. The 27-0 vote is a culmination of a campaign to bring same-sex marriage to the island nation that began in 2010. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2015\/05\/28\/greenland-legalizes-same-sex-marriage\/\">Via the?Washington Blade:?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>?It was a massive day yesterday,? Justus Hansen, a spokesperson for Demokraterne, a political party that first proposed Greenland?s same-sex marriage bill, <a href=\"http:\/\/cphpost.dk\/news\/greenland-approves-gay-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\">told the Copenhagen Post,<\/a> a Danish newspaper, on Wednesday. ?Being gay is not something they?ve chosen for themselves, and it?s an acceptance we need here in Greenland and in the rest of the world.?<\/p>\n<p>Gay U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Rufus Gifford <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rufusgifford\" target=\"_blank\">on his social media pages<\/a> described the passage of the same-sex marriage bill as ?fantastic news.?<\/p>\n<p>Denmark in 1989 became the first country to legally recognize gay and lesbian relationships, but it did not extend full marriage rights to same-sex couples until 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The legislature of the semi-autonomous state of Greenland within Denmark voted unanimously this week to extend full marriage recognition to same-sex couples. The 27-0 vote is a culmination of a campaign to bring same-sex marriage to the island nation that began in 2010. Via the?Washington Blade:? ?It was a massive day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[98,96,99,100,101],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-greenland","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-marriage","tag-marriage-equality","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","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=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}