{"id":3677,"date":"2018-05-23T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:15:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:15:44","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-roundup-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3677","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA US News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3678\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us-news.001-768x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us-news.001-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us-news.001-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us-news.001.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us-news.001-450x338.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us-news.001-850x638.jpeg 850w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us-news.001-667x500.jpeg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Tricia Boucher<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/connecticut\/articles\/2018-05-17\/connecticut-recruiting-lgbt-families-to-adopt-foster-kids\">Connecticut Recruiting LGBT Families to Adopt, Foster Kids<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With 4,300 children in state care, Connecticut?s child welfare system is actively recruiting LGBT families for fostering and adoption.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">? <\/span>This move copies initiatives in New York City and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/gay-friendly-apple-weighs-north-carolina-lgbt-laws-55273473\">Gay-friendly Apple weighs North Carolina despite LGBT laws<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple should soon be deciding whether to build its new corporate hub in North Carolina ? with up to 10,000 new jobs ? unlike other gay-friendly businesses who have delayed adding jobs to the state due to HB2?s passage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/police-make-arrest-killing-transgender-woman-dallas-n875206\">Police make arrest in killing of transgender woman in Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since she was killed during a robbery of her home, Carla Patricia Flores Pavon?s murder is not considered a hate crime ? but because she was murdered in the course of a crime, it is considered a capitol offense. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tricia Boucher Connecticut Recruiting LGBT Families to Adopt, Foster Kids With 4,300 children in state care, Connecticut?s child welfare system is actively recruiting LGBT families for fostering and adoption.? This move copies initiatives in New York City and San Francisco. Gay-friendly Apple weighs North Carolina despite LGBT laws Apple should soon be deciding whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","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=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}