{"id":3039,"date":"2017-06-02T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2017-06-01T09:57:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:57:22","slug":"lgbtqia-world-news-roundup-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3039","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA World News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-060117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3040\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-060117-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/trans-people-blocked-voting-uk\/\">Trans people are being &#8216;blocked from voting&#8217; in the UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just weeks prior to the UK general election, trans citizens are finding it difficult, if not impossible, to register to vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/02\/asia\/gay-games-hong-kong\/\">In Hong Kong&#8217;s bid for Gay Games, a bid for equality in Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many hope the gay games would bring critical exposure for LGBT+ communities and challenge lingering stigmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/argentina-s-first-transgender-police-chief-takes-command\/article_93569c94-162c-5674-9ef5-f663813d6368.html\">Argentina?s first transgender police chief on duty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After serving twenty years on the federal police force, Analia Pasantino was forcibly removed? for being trans.? Well, she?s back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Trans people are being &#8216;blocked from voting&#8217; in the UK Just weeks prior to the UK general election, trans citizens are finding it difficult, if not impossible, to register to vote. In Hong Kong&#8217;s bid for Gay Games, a bid for equality in Asia Many hope the gay games would bring critical [&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-3039","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\/3039","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=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}