{"id":3647,"date":"2018-05-04T13:25:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T17:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2018-05-07T10:56:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T14:56:07","slug":"lgbtqia-world-news-roundup-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3647","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA World News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tricia Boucher<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-africa-43863203?ns_mchannel=social&amp;ns_source=twitter&amp;ns_campaign=bbc_live&amp;ns_linkname=5ae2d733d8bb1e0675d30881%26Cannes-bound%20film%20about%20lesbians%20banned%20in%20Kenya%26&amp;ns_fee=0#post_5ae2d733d8bb1e0675d30881\">Cannes-bound film about lesbians banned in Kenya<\/a><br \/>\nRafiki, a Kenyan film about two women who fall in love, has been banned in its home country of Kenya?despite being praised by the head of the Kenya Film Classification Board.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/commentary\/2018\/4\/27\/connection-between-strong-economies-and-lgbt-rights-no-joke\">The Connection Between Strong Economies and LGBT Rights Is No Joke<\/a><br \/>\nThe authors of this article co-authored three studies showing the relationship between public acceptance of LGBT persons, legal rights of LGBT persons, and a country?s economic performance?and find the connection is both strong and positive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-safrica-lgbt-film\/for-south-african-gay-star-defiance-is-key-to-survival-idUSKBN1HY19O\">For South African gay star, defiance is key to survival<\/a><br \/>\nNakhane, South African star of ?The Wound?, a movie about the Xhosa male initiation ceremony in which he plays a man in a same-sex relationship, talks about surviving and thriving after the receiving death threats once the movie was released.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tricia Boucher Cannes-bound film about lesbians banned in Kenya Rafiki, a Kenyan film about two women who fall in love, has been banned in its home country of Kenya?despite being praised by the head of the Kenya Film Classification Board. The Connection Between Strong Economies and LGBT Rights Is No Joke The authors of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","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=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}