{"id":2999,"date":"2017-05-16T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2017-05-11T13:47:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:47:11","slug":"lgbtqia-rights-roundup-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2999","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Rights Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-051117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-051117-768x725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"725\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/states-failing-lgbti-homeless-youth\/\">Here are the states who are failing LGBTI homeless youth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With approximately 40% of homeless youth in the United States identifying as LGBT+, state governments are not taking this number into account when planning for child welfare, juvenile justice, and homelessness systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sr=1&amp;ct2=us%2F4_0_s_4_1_a&amp;sa=t&amp;usg=AFQjCNGseTX5F5yyjonEIyv-TJbumqrnzQ&amp;cid=null&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F04%2F19-senators-ask-trump-administration-erasing-lgbtq-people-surveys%2F&amp;ei=nacDWYisKMLapwfl7Iq4Cg&amp;sig2=9RE4XHL5Ao09mv78Y7xx3w&amp;rt=HOMEPAGE&amp;vm=STANDARD&amp;bvm=section&amp;did=7015425425496367776&amp;sid=914891530500755953&amp;ssid=cstm&amp;st=2&amp;at=dt0\">19 Senators ask Trump administration why it&#8217;s erasing LGBTQ people<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Senators sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to urge them to collect data on LGBTQ people.? They were prompted to do so in March after a draft copy of the National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants was altered to remove a question asking if survey participants identify as LGBT+.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-gay-conversion-therapy-ban-n753331\">Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to ?Gay Conversion? Therapy Ban<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court left unchanged California?s ban on therapy intended to turn people under the age of 19 straight.? This was in response to a Christian minister?s challenge to the law claiming it violated his ?religious freedom?.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Thomas Maxheimer Here are the states who are failing LGBTI homeless youth With approximately 40% of homeless youth in the United States identifying as LGBT+, state governments are not taking this number into account when planning for child welfare, juvenile justice, and homelessness systems. 19 Senators ask Trump administration why it&#8217;s erasing LGBTQ [&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-2999","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\/2999","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=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}