{"id":2946,"date":"2017-04-25T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2017-04-20T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T19:43:06","slug":"lgbtqia-rights-roundup-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2946","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Rights Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundou-042017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2947\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundou-042017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"644\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-north-carolina-same-sex-marriage-ban-20170412-story.html\">After transgender bathroom battle, North Carolina looks to ban same-sex marriage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even after losing billions of dollars and thousands of jobs with their ?bathroom bill?, North Carolina state legislature has introduced a bill to ban marriage equality in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2017\/04\/nyc-man-punched-subway-gay-city-sees-spike-hate-crimes\/?utm_source=LGBTQ+Nation+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=4f185f82ce-20170403_LGBTQ_Nation_Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c4eab596bd-4f185f82ce-429500585\">NYC man punched on subway for being gay as city sees spike in hate crimes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After slamming a gay man in NYC with anti-gay slurs, the suspect went on to physically assault the victim. ?Emma Shakarshy, a social work intern at the Hetrick-Martin Institute who works with homeless LGBTQ teens, confirms an increase in violence against LGBT+?in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/court-civil-rights-law-covers-lgbt-workplace-bias\/ar-BBzm8uF?li=BBnbfcL&amp;ocid=BHEA000\">Court: Civil Rights Law covers LGBT workplace bias<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A federal appeals court in Chicago has ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT+ employees from workplace discrimination. ?This is the first time a federal appellate court has come to that conclusion, reports Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer After transgender bathroom battle, North Carolina looks to ban same-sex marriage Even after losing billions of dollars and thousands of jobs with their ?bathroom bill?, North Carolina state legislature has introduced a bill to ban marriage equality in the state. &nbsp; NYC man punched on subway for being gay as city sees [&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-2946","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\/2946","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=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}