{"id":3005,"date":"2017-05-19T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2017-05-11T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T18:11:50","slug":"lgbtqia-world-news-roundup-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3005","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA World News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-051117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-051117-768x729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"729\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-crime\/article\/2091507\/landmark-win-gay-hong-kong-civil-servant-over-husbands\">Landmark win for gay Hong Kong civil servant over husband?s benefits<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a landmark victory with far-reaching implications for Hong Kong?s sexual minorities, a gay civil servant?s husband will be entitled to the same benefits as his heterosexual colleagues? spouses after a successful legal challenge against government policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/watch-testimonies-from-gay-men-in-chechnya-reveal-authorities-forcing-parents-to-kill-their-own-children\/\">WATCH: Testimonies from gay men in Chechnya reveal authorities force parents to kill their own children<\/a><\/p>\n<p>?We?ve always been persecuted, but never like this,? one anonymous Chechen states.? ?Now they arrest everyone. They kill people, they do whatever they want,? he continues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/russian-police-arrest-activists-st-petersburg-protesting-gay-concentration-camps-chechnya\/\">Russian police arrest activists in St Petersburg protesting gay concentration camps in Chechnya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russian police in full riot gear arrest at least 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Landmark win for gay Hong Kong civil servant over husband?s benefits In a landmark victory with far-reaching implications for Hong Kong?s sexual minorities, a gay civil servant?s husband will be entitled to the same benefits as his heterosexual colleagues? spouses after a successful legal challenge against government policy. WATCH: Testimonies from gay [&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-3005","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\/3005","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=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}