{"id":2881,"date":"2017-03-29T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2017-03-22T16:49:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:49:44","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-roundup-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2881","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA US News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LGBTQIA-US-News-Roundup-032217.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2882\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LGBTQIA-US-News-Roundup-032217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"744\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/us-sends-anti-gay-hate-group-un-fueling-fears-over-n734441\">U.S. Sends ?Anti-Gay Hate? Group to U.N., Fueling Fears Over LGBTQ Rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the last five years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) as a hate group. ?Yet the Trump administration has chosen to send this hate group to key United Nations meetings which has left LGBT+ rights group fearing a roll-back of gay rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2017\/03\/14\/world\/crime-legal-world\/u-s-hate-crimes-20-2016-fueled-election-campaign-report-says\/\">U.S. Hate Crimes, Up 20% In 2016, Fueled By Election Campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bomb threats, desecration at synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, murders of transgender people, and gay bashings have all increased in US metropolitan areas. ?Overall, there has been a 20% increase over the previous year, according to California researcher Brian Levin of the Center for the Study of Hate &amp; Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. ?New York reported the greatest number of hate crimes at 380, a 24 percent increase from 2015, while Washington, DC, saw the largest percentage rise at 62 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/la-resist-march_us_58c6da40e4b0598c66987c52\">This Year The LA Pride Parade Is Being Replaced By A ?Resist March?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Pride organizers have repurposed their annual Pride Festival as a <u>#ResistMarch,<\/u> which is scheduled in response to the threat against the rights of minority Americans by current forces in the US government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer U.S. Sends ?Anti-Gay Hate? Group to U.N., Fueling Fears Over LGBTQ Rights For the last five years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) as a hate group. ?Yet the Trump administration has chosen to send this hate group to key United Nations meetings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","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=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}