{"id":3476,"date":"2018-01-19T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2018-01-16T09:33:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:33:33","slug":"lgbtqia-world-news-roundup-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3476","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA World News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3477\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-011618-768x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-011618-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-011618-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-011618-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-011618-450x169.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-011618-850x319.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-011618-1000x375.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LGBTQIA-World-News-Roundup-011618.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Tricia Boucher<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2018\/jan\/10\/gay-women-greater-risk-of-violence-ghana\">&#8216;One guy took a cutlass&#8217;: gay women at greater risk of violence in Ghana<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LGBT women in Ghana are often ostracized by their families in Ghana at a larger rate than men, putting them at greater risk for violence from family members as well as the general population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/indias-top-court-examine-gay-rights-52205980?cid=alerts_lgbt\">India&#8217;s top court to re-examine gay rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently, the law in India makes any homosexual act punishable by up to 10 years in prison.? While a lower court found this law to be unconstitutional in 2009, the Supreme Court refused to overturn it.? It is now planning to re-examine this decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/could-same-sex-couples-soon-conceive-child-both-their-dna-n836876\">Could same-sex couples soon conceive a child with both their DNA?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered how stem cells create sperm, the first step in what will be a very long process of research and study, that could some day make biological parenthood a possibility for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tricia Boucher &#8216;One guy took a cutlass&#8217;: gay women at greater risk of violence in Ghana LGBT women in Ghana are often ostracized by their families in Ghana at a larger rate than men, putting them at greater risk for violence from family members as well as the general population. India&#8217;s top court to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3476","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\/3476","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=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}