{"id":3114,"date":"2017-07-05T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2017-07-13T15:06:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T19:06:53","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-roundup-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3114","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA US News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LGBTQIA-US-News-Roundup-063017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3115\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LGBTQIA-US-News-Roundup-063017-768x325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2017\/06\/google-grants-1-million-preserve-stonewall-oral-history\/?utm_source=LGBTQ+Nation+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=16d1b2dd7d-20170620_LGBTQ_Nation_Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c4eab596bd-16d1b2dd7d-429500585\">Google grants $1 million to preserve Stonewall oral history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chuck Schumer announced that the funding will go to The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &amp; Transgender Community Center to start the project, which will work with the National Park Foundation to preserve and educate future generations about what really happened during the Stonewall Riots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgemedianetwork.com\/news\/national\/216936\">LGBTQ Seniors and Federal Surveys<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the Trump administration the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services removed questions that identify LGBT+ people from two of its nationwide surveys. These questions were Obama era additions, and have the potential to negatively impact LGBT+ seniors, who will now remain invisible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/news\/20170620\/board-takes-no-action-after-aclu-defends-school-employees-anti-gay-facebook-post\">Board takes no action after ACLU defends school employee?s anti-gay Facebook post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In referring to the Columbus, Ohio pride parade, the employee said, ?I hope this event turns out like the Boston Marathon a few year?s (sic) back. All fag?s (sic) should be killed or at least relocated.?? The ACLU of Ohio reminded the school board that anti-gay statements made in public forum, such as Facebook, are considered part of a belief system and courts have upheld these rights for employees of the government.<\/p>\n<p>Edit (07\/12\/17): An earlier version of this article mistakenly referred to the &#8220;Cleveland, Ohio pride parade&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Google grants $1 million to preserve Stonewall oral history Sen. Chuck Schumer announced that the funding will go to The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &amp; Transgender Community Center to start the project, which will work with the National Park Foundation to preserve and educate future generations about what really happened during the Stonewall [&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-3114","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\/3114","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=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}