{"id":3090,"date":"2017-06-28T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2017-06-25T08:39:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T12:39:42","slug":"lgbtqia-politics-roundup-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3090","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Politics Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Danica_Roem_insert_courtesy_Danica_Roem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3091\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Danica_Roem_insert_courtesy_Danica_Roem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2017\/06\/trans-candidate-virginia-makes-history-winning-house-primary\/?utm_source=LGBTQ+Nation+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=f4013c6b3e-20170614_LGBTQ_Nation_Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c4eab596bd-f4013c6b3e-429500\">Trans candidate in Virginia makes history by winning House primary<\/a><br \/>\nDanica Roem will not face anti-LGBT+ Republican Bob Marshal in the general election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2017\/06\/commerce-department-kills-employment-protections-lgbt-people\/\">Commerce Department walks back attempt to kill LGBT+ protections<\/a><br \/>\nThe Commerce Department recently changed their equal opportunity employment statement, removing LGBT+ protections. They have since said that was an error, and will fix the problem soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2017\/06\/lgbt-pride-act\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%253A+towleroad%252Ffeed+%2528Towleroad+Gay+News+%2529\">Congressman Introduces PRIDE Act to Combat Violence Against LGBT+ People<\/a><br \/>\nNew York Rep. Sean Maloney introduced the Provide a Requirement to Improve Data Collection Efforts (PRIDE) Act, which calls on the Center for Diseases Control (CDC) to increase data collection on sexual orientation and gender identity of victims who have faced violent deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Trans candidate in Virginia makes history by winning House primary Danica Roem will not face anti-LGBT+ Republican Bob Marshal in the general election. Commerce Department walks back attempt to kill LGBT+ protections The Commerce Department recently changed their equal opportunity employment statement, removing LGBT+ protections. They have since said that was an [&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-3090","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\/3090","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=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}