{"id":3343,"date":"2017-10-25T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2017-10-24T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T13:08:40","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-roundup-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3343","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA US News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-US-News-Roundup-102417-768x468.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-US-News-Roundup-102417-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-US-News-Roundup-102417-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-US-News-Roundup-102417-450x274.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-US-News-Roundup-102417-850x518.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-US-News-Roundup-102417-821x500.jpg 821w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-US-News-Roundup-102417.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Tricia Boucher<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectq.us\/atlanta\/georgia_lawmaker_suggests_quarantining_people_with_hiv?gid=18591\">Georgia lawmaker suggests quarantining people with HIV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>State representative Betty Price (R), suggested quarantining HIV-positive persons during a committee meeting that, ironically, was set up to look at barriers to treatment for HIV-positive persons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/crime\/2017\/10\/20\/gay-agent-fired-after-sexual-assault-allegations\">Gay Agent Fired After Sexual Assault Allegations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gay men join women with their #MeToo stories of sexual assault in Hollywood and the workplace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/local\/article180025506.html\">This Missouri city is one of the worst for LGBT people in the nation, report says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jefferson City, MO received a zero on the Municipality Equality Index, compiled by the Human Rights Campaign.? Ratings are based on a number of factors regarding equal treatment of the LGBT community by municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tricia Boucher Georgia lawmaker suggests quarantining people with HIV State representative Betty Price (R), suggested quarantining HIV-positive persons during a committee meeting that, ironically, was set up to look at barriers to treatment for HIV-positive persons. Gay Agent Fired After Sexual Assault Allegations Gay men join women with their #MeToo stories of sexual assault [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","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\/3343","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=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}