{"id":2801,"date":"2017-03-01T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2017-02-23T15:52:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T20:52:52","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-roundup-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2801","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA US News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n

Anti-LGBTI Betsy DeVos Confirmed As Education Secretary<\/a><\/p>\n

There are some suggestions?that Betsy DeVos’ confirmation was bought. Huffington Post<\/a>?has listed DeVos’ financial contributions to the Republican Senators who voted for her. ?In addition, Vox<\/a>?<\/em>reports unknown actors paid random internet users to write notes supporting her contentious confirmation. The Washington Post<\/a>?has also reported ethics issues with DeVos’ ownership in student debt collection agencies.<\/p>\n

Vermont is the Leading State for LGBT Self-Identification<\/a><\/p>\n

According to a Gallup poll, Vermont has the largest portion of adults identifying as LGBT in 2015 and 2016. ?In the top 5 are Vermont (5.3%), Massachusetts (4.9%), California (4.9%), Oregon (4.9%) and Nevada (4.8%).<\/p>\n

Orlando Shooter?s Wife Helped Scout Locations, Prosecutors Claim<\/a><\/p>\n

Wife of Orlando Pulse Night Club shooter, Noor Salman, was refused bail in her initial court appearance and was referred for psychiatric evaluation by the judge. ?She has been charged with obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting her husband. ?Prosecutors claimed that Disney World was one of their prospective targets for their mass-murder plot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Thomas Maxheimer Anti-LGBTI Betsy DeVos Confirmed As Education Secretary There are some suggestions?that Betsy DeVos’ confirmation was bought. Huffington Post?has listed DeVos’ financial contributions to the Republican Senators who voted for her. ?In addition, Vox?reports unknown actors paid random internet users to write notes supporting her contentious confirmation. The Washington Post?has also reported ethics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":2803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","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\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}