{"id":3345,"date":"2017-10-27T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2017-10-24T09:13:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T13:13:37","slug":"lgbtqia-world-news-roundup-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3345","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA World News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3346\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-102417-768x612.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-102417-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-102417-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-102417-450x358.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-102417-850x677.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-102417-628x500.jpg 628w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-102417.jpg 909w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Tricia Boucher<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/tajikistan-registers-367-suspected-gays-lesbians-database-n812771\">Tajikistan Registers 367 Suspected Gays, Lesbians in Database<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the help of police and prosecutors, Tajikistan?s Ministry of Internal Affairs has created a registry of suspected gay citizens in order to forcibly test them for HIV.? While homosexuality is not a crime in Tajikistan, this database uses the pretext of public health to continue the governments ?deeply homophobic? regime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2017\/oct\/23\/children-raised-by-same-sex-parents-do-as-well-as-their-peers-study-shows\">Children raised by same-sex parents do as well as their peers, study shows<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Medical Journal of Australia published a three-decade study of children raised in same-sex-parented families and found that the main problem for children of same-sex parents is discrimination.? The timing of this study?s publication is significant in the face of the current same-sex marriage vote happening in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/indonesia-considers-ban-destructive-lgbtq-related-tv-content-n811131\">&#8216;Destructive&#8217; LGBTQ-Related TV Content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite a tradition of transgender characters in Indonesian performance and folk art, Indonesia?s parliament is considering banning LGBT content from television, something which the broadcasting commission already works to regulate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tricia Boucher Tajikistan Registers 367 Suspected Gays, Lesbians in Database With the help of police and prosecutors, Tajikistan?s Ministry of Internal Affairs has created a registry of suspected gay citizens in order to forcibly test them for HIV.? While homosexuality is not a crime in Tajikistan, this database uses the pretext of public health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3345","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\/3345","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=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}