{"id":3253,"date":"2017-09-08T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2017-09-14T09:06:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:06:42","slug":"lgbtqia-world-news-roundup-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3253","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA World News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-090617-768x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"508\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Tricia Boucher<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/04\/asia\/australia-same-sex-marriage-explainer\/index.html\">Why same-sex marriage isn&#8217;t legal in Australia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the majority of Australians are in favor of legalizing marriage between persons of the same sex, it has not yet been made legal in Australia.? Here?s why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2017\/sep\/05\/postal-survey-on-same-sex-marriage-unique-and-offensive-high-court-told\">Postal survey on same-sex marriage &#8216;unique and offensive&#8217;, high court told<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia is still at it?since the legislation to allow same-sex marriage has been blocked in parliament, it is being put to a national vote via mail.? But same-sex marriage advocates are against this vote and are working to block it in the courts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/world\/2017\/9\/03\/rainbow-railroad-helps-31-persecuted-chechen-gay-bisexual-men-safety\">Rainbow Railroad Helps 31 Persecuted Chechen Gay &amp; Bisexual Men to Safety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toronto-based Rainbow Railroad has been successful moving threatened G&amp;B men to Canada, with the support of the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tricia Boucher Why same-sex marriage isn&#8217;t legal in Australia While the majority of Australians are in favor of legalizing marriage between persons of the same sex, it has not yet been made legal in Australia.? Here?s why. Postal survey on same-sex marriage &#8216;unique and offensive&#8217;, high court told Australia is still at it?since the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253","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=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}