{"id":2937,"date":"2017-04-21T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2017-04-13T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T20:33:13","slug":"lgbtqia-world-news-roundup-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2937","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA World News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-041317.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2938\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-041317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"858\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yle.fi\/uutiset\/osasto\/news\/over_800_couples_marry_in_first_month_of_legal_same-sex_unions\/9545599\">Over 800 couples marry in first month of legal same-sex unions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since granting gender-neutral marriage equal legal status in March, Finland has welcomed approximately 800 couples into marriage. ?A high percentage, 770, were already civil partnerships, while 87 were entirely new unions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/russia-bans-pictures-putin-drag-ones-cant-show\/\">Russia bans pictures of Putin in drag: So these are the ones we can?t show you<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Possessing photographs of Vladimir Putin dressed in drag now carries a potential prison sentence in Russia. ?The Russian government updated its Federal List of Extremist Material in March, adding some 4,000 new items.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2017\/04\/amsterdam-hand-in-hand\/\">Thousands March Through Amsterdam to Oppose Anti-LGBT Violence After Attack on Gay Couple Holding Hands: WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a heart-warming show of solidarity, more than 2,000 people joined hands and took part in a march through Amsterdam to oppose violence against LGBT+ people. ?This action was in support of a gay couple who were brutally attacked for holding hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Over 800 couples marry in first month of legal same-sex unions Since granting gender-neutral marriage equal legal status in March, Finland has welcomed approximately 800 couples into marriage. ?A high percentage, 770, were already civil partnerships, while 87 were entirely new unions. Russia bans pictures of Putin in drag: So these are [&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-2937","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\/2937","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=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}