{"id":3161,"date":"2017-07-28T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2017-07-21T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:05:48","slug":"lgbtqia-world-news-roundup-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3161","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA World News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3162\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-072117-768x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/t-shirt-gay-gym-goers\/#gs.Ya7A79A\">Man&#8217;s t-shirt deemed &#8216;too gay&#8217; for the gym<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aspiring poet was asked to stop wearing his shirt, yet he declined, and the encounter has gone viral in Singapore where LGBT rights are staunchly debated.? Koh, a NYC based poet and scholar, also spoke of an interaction he had with a young stranger on public transportation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/p.feedblitz.com\/r3.asp?l=139627725&amp;f=74406&amp;c=5685387&amp;u=36047118\">Gay Refugees Face Sex Questions By German Authorities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/vorwurf-der-diskriminierung-peinliche-fragen-an-homosexuelle-asylbewerber-1.3580316\"><em>Suddeutsche Zeitung<\/em><\/a>, a German news outlet, has reported that the questions include asking, ?How often did you have sex with your boyfriend?? and ?How did you find the intercourse??<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/surprising-lgbti-stats-facts\/\">The most surprising LGBTI stats and facts from around the world<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To name just a few: Being gay is a crime for 2.7 billion people globally.? Trans women are 49% more likely to contract HIV.? And, the first formally organized LGBT movement in the U.S. was the Society for Human Rights in Illinois in 1924.? Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtqstats.org\">www.lgbtqstats.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Man&#8217;s t-shirt deemed &#8216;too gay&#8217; for the gym The aspiring poet was asked to stop wearing his shirt, yet he declined, and the encounter has gone viral in Singapore where LGBT rights are staunchly debated.? Koh, a NYC based poet and scholar, also spoke of an interaction he had with a young [&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-3161","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\/3161","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=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}