{"id":3054,"date":"2017-06-13T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2017-06-09T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:01:37","slug":"lgbtqia-rights-roundup-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3054","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Rights Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-060917.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3055\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-060917-768x622.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"622\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/racism-big-problem-gay-community-survey-finds\/\">Racism is a big problem in the gay community, survey finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>850 black, white, Asian, South Asian, Arab, and mixed race gay men participated in a survey that found 80% of black men, 79% of Asian men, 75% of South Asian men, 64% of mixed race men, and 100% of Arab men have experienced some form of racism in the LGBT+ community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/lgbti-people-nearly-invisible-major-hollywood-films-new-report-finds\/\">LGBTI people are &#8216;nearly invisible&#8217; in major Hollywood films, report finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 5th annual GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index analyzed 125 films and found only 23 included LGBT+ characters.? LGBT+ people of color dropped to 20% from 25.5% last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2017\/05\/transgender-cadets-denied-commissions-loophole\/\">Transgender cadets denied commissions because of loophole<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>New York Times<\/em>, cadets at two military academies aren?t being allowed to become commissioned officers even though the trans ban on service members was removed last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Racism is a big problem in the gay community, survey finds 850 black, white, Asian, South Asian, Arab, and mixed race gay men participated in a survey that found 80% of black men, 79% of Asian men, 75% of South Asian men, 64% of mixed race men, and 100% of Arab men [&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-3054","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\/3054","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=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}