{"id":2280,"date":"2015-12-13T13:07:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T19:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2015-12-13T13:07:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T19:07:33","slug":"new-york-lgbt-rights-group-to-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2280","title":{"rendered":"New York LGBT rights group to shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Empire State Pride Agenda announced this week that they will be suspending operations in 2016 after 25 years in operation. The group&#8217;s Board of Directors unanimously voted on the move; however, the group&#8217;s political action committee will stay functional. The group said via<a href=\"http:\/\/prideagenda.org\/news\/2015-12-12-empire-state-pride-agenda-announces-plans-conclude-major-operations-2016\"> press release:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Boards? decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda?s top remaining policy priority ? protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education and public accommodations ? in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization?s Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Later in the release, the group said that it would be passing on pieces of its policy agenda to other unnamed groups in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The Empire State Pride Agenda announced this week that they will be suspending operations in 2016 after 25 years in operation. The group&#8217;s Board of Directors unanimously voted on the move; however, the group&#8217;s political action committee will stay functional. The group said via press release: The Boards? decision comes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[524,525,523],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-empire-state-pride-agenda","tag-lgbt-politics","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","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=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}