{"id":3018,"date":"2017-05-24T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2017-05-18T15:22:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T19:22:16","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-roundup-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3018","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA US News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LGBTQIA-US-New-Roundup-051817.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LGBTQIA-US-New-Roundup-051817-768x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2017\/05\/funeral-home-gay-man\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+towleroad%2Ffeed+%28Towleroad+Gay+News+%29\">Funeral Home Sued for Refusing Body of Gay Man: We Don?t ?Deal with Their Kind? ? WATCH <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A funeral home in Picayune, Mississippi has allegedly refused to handle funeral arrangements after learning that the deceased was the husband of a gay man.? The couple spent 52 years together and were married in 2015. Lambda Legal has joined the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/05\/07\/debra-messing-message-to-ivanka-trump-glaad\/\">Debra Messing&#8217;s message to Ivanka Trump is both pure LOLs and political fire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Messing did not disappoint in her humorous acceptance speech by teasing Ivanka Trump about helping with women?s issues and getting the Ivanka brand back into the Nordstrom?s department store.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitymarch2017.com\/\">The upcoming Equality March now has its own website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Register for the June 11 march, or find participating events closer to home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Funeral Home Sued for Refusing Body of Gay Man: We Don?t ?Deal with Their Kind? ? WATCH A funeral home in Picayune, Mississippi has allegedly refused to handle funeral arrangements after learning that the deceased was the husband of a gay man.? The couple spent 52 years together and were married in [&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-3018","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\/3018","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=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}