{"id":2933,"date":"2017-04-20T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2017-04-13T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T20:16:08","slug":"lgbtqia-politics-roundup-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2933","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Politics Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-041317.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-041317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2017\/04\/new-mexico-conversion-therapy\/\">New Mexico?s GOP Governor Signs Bill Outlawing &#8216;Conversion Therapy&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Republican Governor of New Mexico, Susana Martinez, signed into law a bill that would prohibit the use of conversion therapy in the state. ?This makes New Mexico the seventh state to bar the practice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/dance-party-protest-ivankas-hoyse_us_58e29af3e4b0d0b7e163a0d4\">Hundreds Of LGBTQ People Held A Dance Party Protest Outside Ivanka Trump?s Home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/werkforpeace.org\/\">WERK for Peace<\/a>, a queer artist collective, organized the protest along with several other local LGBT+ groups. ?The part was in response to the Trump administration?s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/28\/climate\/trump-executive-order-climate-change.html\">executive order rolling back climate policies<\/a>?and Ivanka Trump?s claims to be an LGBTQ ally while doing nothing to interfere as?her father?s administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/trump-fair-pay-lgbtq_us_58dd3c56e4b0e6ac709316ac\">continues to roll out anti-LGBTQ orders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/commentary\/2017\/4\/04\/trumps-executive-order-pushing-people-back-closet\">Trump&#8217;s Executive Order Is Pushing People Back In the Closet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out &amp; Equal&#8217;s Selisse Berry wonders how many queer people are quietly taking their spouse&#8217;s photo off their desk after the president&#8217;s directives enabling businesses to discriminate against their workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer New Mexico?s GOP Governor Signs Bill Outlawing &#8216;Conversion Therapy&#8217; The Republican Governor of New Mexico, Susana Martinez, signed into law a bill that would prohibit the use of conversion therapy in the state. ?This makes New Mexico the seventh state to bar the practice. Hundreds Of LGBTQ People Held A Dance Party [&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-2933","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\/2933","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=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}