{"id":3260,"date":"2017-09-12T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2017-09-14T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:00:47","slug":"lgbtqia-rights-roundup-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3260","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Rights Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3261\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-091117-768x407.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/harvard-yale-bisexual-freshmen\/#gs.wLuxtSA\">Harvard and Yale welcome more bisexual freshmen than ever before<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A survey has revealed that 7.9% of students in the 2021 graduating class of Harvard identify as bisexual, up from 2.5% in 2007.? At Yale, 5% of freshmen identify as bisexual, higher than the 1.8% of overall U.S. population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2017\/09\/canada-chechnya\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+towleroad%2Ffeed+%28Towleroad+Gay+News+%29\">Russian Official Warns Canada of Consequences for Helping Gay Men Fleeing Persecution in Chechnya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Canada has granted asylum to 31 gay men fleeing persecution from Chechnya.? According to the Canadian paper <em>Globe and Mail<\/em>, Russian has warned of ?consequences? of this action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2017\/09\/07\/doj-files-scotus-brief-backing-anti-gay-baker\/\">DOJ Files SCOTUS Amicus Brief Backing Anti-Gay Baker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Justice Department filed a brief today with the Supreme Court arguing that businesses that are open to the public have a constitutional right to discriminate against LGBT people.&#8221; &#8211; ACLU press release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Harvard and Yale welcome more bisexual freshmen than ever before A survey has revealed that 7.9% of students in the 2021 graduating class of Harvard identify as bisexual, up from 2.5% in 2007.? At Yale, 5% of freshmen identify as bisexual, higher than the 1.8% of overall U.S. population. Russian Official Warns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","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\/3260","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=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}