{"id":2815,"date":"2017-03-08T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2017-03-01T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T20:21:21","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-roundup-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2815","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA US News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

U.S. Customs Blocked A Canadian Gay Man Over The Content Of His Scruff Profile<\/a><\/p>\n

The Customs officials seemed to believe the gay man, who’s husband lives in New Orleans, LA, was a prostitute due to certain slang words in his social media profile. ?He was twice denied entry, the second attempt was blocked even after removing social media apps from his phone.<\/p>\n

GOP?s Plan To De-fund Planned Parenthood Will Hit Transgender Community Hard<\/a><\/p>\n

The US Congress appears to be creeping closer to repealing the Affordable Care Act, although they have yet to propose a viable alternative. ?In a leaked draft<\/a> of proposed legislation, Republicans also hope to shut down the nation?s number one provider of health care to women: Planned Parenthood. ?A lesser known fact is that Planned Parenthood is also the leading provider of health services to transgender people, including hormone treatments.<\/p>\n

Gay people raised religious are 12 times more likely to suffer from poor mental health<\/a><\/p>\n

A study shows religious LGBT+ people are more likely to suffer from long-term mental illnesses including anxiety, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and depression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Thomas Maxheimer U.S. Customs Blocked A Canadian Gay Man Over The Content Of His Scruff Profile The Customs officials seemed to believe the gay man, who’s husband lives in New Orleans, LA, was a prostitute due to certain slang words in his social media profile. ?He was twice denied entry, the second attempt was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":2816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","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\/2815","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=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}