{"id":3020,"date":"2017-05-26T15:07:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T19:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2017-05-18T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T19:15:36","slug":"lgbtqia-world-news-roundup-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3020","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-051817.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-051817-768x586.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"586\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/indonesian-university-refuses-entry-lgbti-students\/\">Indonesian university refuses to enroll LGBTI students<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Universitas Andalas in Padang, West Sumatra has brought attention to itself due to a portion of their website insisting students sign a letter declaring they do not identify as LGBT+.? While the page has been removed, the school states?LGBT+ students will not be allowed into the school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/gay-teen-pushed-off-9th-floor-balcony-uncle-outed-family-chechnya\/\">Gay teen pushed off 9th floor balcony by uncle after being outed to family in Chechnya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old was killed to ?wash the shame? of having a gay relative. ?Chechen police have instructed family members of gay men to ?sort it out? or the state will intervene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/lithuania-first-country-to-grant-asylum-to-gay-men-escaping-chechnya\/\">Lithuania one of the first countries to grant asylum to gay men escaping Chechnya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, at least two gay people have escaped Chechnya and have been granted asylum visas in Lithuania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Indonesian university refuses to enroll LGBTI students The Universitas Andalas in Padang, West Sumatra has brought attention to itself due to a portion of their website insisting students sign a letter declaring they do not identify as LGBT+.? While the page has been removed, the school states?LGBT+ students will not be allowed [&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-3020","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\/3020","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=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}