{"id":2948,"date":"2017-04-27T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2017-04-20T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T19:55:09","slug":"lgbtqia-politics-roundup-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2948","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Politics Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-042017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2949\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-042017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"752\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/president-trump-nominates-extreme-anti-lgbti-politician-mark-green-for-top-army-job\/\">President Trump nominates &#8216;extreme&#8217; anti-LGBTI politician Mark Green for top army job<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/president-trump-nominates-extreme-anti-lgbti-politician-mark-green-for-top-army-job\/\">&#8216;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In September of 2016, Mark Green said ?If you poll the psychiatrists, they?re going to tell you that transgender is a disease.?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lgbtqnation.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=ecab442566f15d8d4dcf64b0d&amp;id=3be41879ce&amp;e=795beb3e9a\">George W. Bush attacks Trump over HIV\/AIDS funding<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/george-w-bush-pepfar-saves-millions-of-lives-in-africa-keep-it-fully-funded\/2017\/04\/07\/2089fa46-1ba7-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html?utm_term=.d4fb440f39cb\">George W. Bush wrote a column for the <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/george-w-bush-pepfar-saves-millions-of-lives-in-africa-keep-it-fully-funded\/2017\/04\/07\/2089fa46-1ba7-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html?utm_term=.d4fb440f39cb\"><em>Washington Post <\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/george-w-bush-pepfar-saves-millions-of-lives-in-africa-keep-it-fully-funded\/2017\/04\/07\/2089fa46-1ba7-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html?utm_term=.d4fb440f39cb\">to defend PEPFAR funding<\/a>. ?PEPFAR is a program that provides funding for the treatment, care, and prevention of HIV\/AIDS, mostly in Africa and the Caribbean. ?Mr. Trump feels that this money would be better spent on the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/official-in-bush-era-purge-of-gay-employees-now-in-trump-administration\">Official Involved in Bush-Era Purge of Gay Employees Now in Trump Administration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jim Renne, was a key player in the scandal to find and remove LGBT+ people from?his government-funded organization, one that was built to protect whistle-blowers. ?Mr. Renne has been appointed by Trump to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer President Trump nominates &#8216;extreme&#8217; anti-LGBTI politician Mark Green for top army job &#8216; In September of 2016, Mark Green said ?If you poll the psychiatrists, they?re going to tell you that transgender is a disease.? George W. Bush attacks Trump over HIV\/AIDS funding Former president George W. Bush wrote a column for [&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-2948","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\/2948","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=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}