{"id":3472,"date":"2018-01-17T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2018-01-16T09:21:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:21:35","slug":"lgbtqia-rights-roundup-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3472","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Rights Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-011618-768x452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-011618-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-011618-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-011618-1024x603.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-011618-450x265.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-011618-850x501.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-011618-849x500.jpg 849w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-011618.jpg 1175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2018\/01\/scotus-religious-freedom\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+towleroad%2Ffeed+%28Towleroad+Gay+News+%29\">SCOTUS Lets Mississippi?s Heinous Anti-LGBTQ ?Religious Freedom? Law Stand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court did not comment on the case challenging HB 1523 which allows officials, healthcare providers, and businesses to freely discriminate LGBTQ individuals if they cite ?moral? or religious objections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2018\/01\/03\/facebook-gay-cure-ad-sparks-outrage\/1\/?utm_source=ET&amp;utm_medium=ETFB&amp;utm_campaign=portal&amp;utm_content=inf_546_60_2&amp;tse_id=INF_dc4a0b40f1ee11e78f902fe1e08be610\">Facebook ?gay cure? ad sparks outrage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over 1.5 million views were tallied prior to Facebook removing the offensive gay ?cure? therapy advertisement.? The evangelical Christian group, labeled ?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/anchored-north-gay-conversion-video-evangelical-christian-group-prayer-love-lgbt-rights-facebook-a8148111.html\">cult-like<\/a>? by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/us\">Independent<\/a>, posted the ad on Facebook with the misleading title ?Love is Love?, only to use the subsequent video to insist gay people repent their sexuality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/florida-begins-2018-by-offering-free-prep-statewide\">Florida Begins 2018 by Offering Free PrEP Statewide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PrEP, which decreases HIV infection risk by 92 percent, will be available to at-risk people regardless of their health insurance status by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer SCOTUS Lets Mississippi?s Heinous Anti-LGBTQ ?Religious Freedom? Law Stand The U.S. Supreme Court did not comment on the case challenging HB 1523 which allows officials, healthcare providers, and businesses to freely discriminate LGBTQ individuals if they cite ?moral? or religious objections. Facebook ?gay cure? ad sparks outrage Over 1.5 million views were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3472","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\/3472","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=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}