{"id":2431,"date":"2016-03-20T16:58:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T21:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2016-03-20T16:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T21:58:58","slug":"white-house-appoints-first-trans-person-as-primary-lgbt-liaison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2431","title":{"rendered":"White House appoints first trans person as primary LGBT liaison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The White House announced this week that?Raffi Freedman-Gurspan has been appointed as the White House&#8217;s primary LGBT liaison. Freedman-Gurspan is the first trans person to hold this role since it was created under President Clinton in 1993. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/dominicholden\/white-appoints-first-transgender-person-as-primary-lgbt-liai#.leAvn6y43\">Buzzfeed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Freedman-Gurspan became the first transgender staffer appointed to the White House in 2015, working as the outreach and recruitment director in the presidential personnel office.<\/p>\n<p>In her new role ? as the Outreach &amp; Recruitment Director for Presidential Personnel and Associate Director for Public Engagement ? Freedman-Gurspan becomes the White House?s lead point of contact for LGBT groups on all issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The White House announced this week that?Raffi Freedman-Gurspan has been appointed as the White House&#8217;s primary LGBT liaison. Freedman-Gurspan is the first trans person to hold this role since it was created under President Clinton in 1993. Via Buzzfeed: Freedman-Gurspan became the first transgender staffer appointed to the White House in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[668,149,667],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-glbt-liaison","tag-trans","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","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=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}