{"id":3268,"date":"2017-09-14T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2017-09-14T09:03:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:03:01","slug":"lgbtqia-politics-roundup-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3268","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Politics Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-091417-768x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"508\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Brian Hulsey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/downers-grove\/news\/ct-downers-grove-library-court-hearing-met-0907-20170906-story.html\">Ex-Downers Grove library official to argue for reinstatement after alleged homophobic comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Art Jaros, who was recently removed from the Downers Grove library board for making offensive comments regarding diversity, inclusion, and homosexuality, applied for an injunction to have his removal reversed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2017\/09\/12\/white-house-opposes-amendment-trans-military-ban\/%20\">Trump admin comes out against amendment protecting trans troops <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Trump administration has come out against an amendment proposed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) that would undermine President Trump?s ban on transgender people in the U.S. armed forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/seattle-mayor-ed-murray-resigns-after-fifth-child-sex-abuse-allegation\/\">Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigns after fifth child sex-abuse allegation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Openly gay Mayor, Ed Murray, announced his resignation after a fifth accuser said Murray molested him when he was a teen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brian Hulsey Ex-Downers Grove library official to argue for reinstatement after alleged homophobic comments Art Jaros, who was recently removed from the Downers Grove library board for making offensive comments regarding diversity, inclusion, and homosexuality, applied for an injunction to have his removal reversed. Trump admin comes out against amendment protecting trans troops &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3268","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\/3268","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=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}