{"id":3227,"date":"2017-08-31T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2017-08-31T08:18:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T12:18:53","slug":"lgbtqia-rights-roundup-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3227","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Rights Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3228\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-083117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gaystarnews.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9c140b7a8e1b10797db61e5cd&amp;id=605a474d76&amp;e=cc245f0025\">Meet the man writing children?s books about Harvey Milk and Stonewall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A native of Springfield, MO, Rob Sanders is inspired to write children?s books because he works with kids every day as a teacher.? Currently based in Florida, his next two books will be, <em>Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag,<\/em>?set for an April 10, 2018 release, and <em>Stonewall: The Uprising for Gay Rights,?<\/em>which does not yet have a release date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2017\/08\/pride-flag-alabama-school\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+towleroad%2Ffeed+%28Towleroad+Gay+News+%29\">Students and Parents Demand Removal of Pride Flag from Alabama High School, Equate it with the Confederate Flag<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A petition was circulated by anti-gay parents stating in part, ?The flying of the pride flag can create a hostile and uncomfortable learning environment.? ?It went on to say that exposing students, ?to political views differing from theirs can make students uncomfortable.?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/08\/21\/545071428\/lgbt-community-continues-to-feel-targeted-in-age-of-trump\">LGBT Community Continues To Feel Targeted In Age Of Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Latinos, Muslims, transgender, gay, who?s next?? Trump and his tweets have ?opened the floodgates? against many vulnerable groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Meet the man writing children?s books about Harvey Milk and Stonewall A native of Springfield, MO, Rob Sanders is inspired to write children?s books because he works with kids every day as a teacher.? Currently based in Florida, his next two books will be, Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the [&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-3227","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\/3227","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=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}