{"id":3679,"date":"2018-05-25T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:22:05","slug":"lgbtqia-world-news-roundup-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3679","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA World News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3680\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/world-news.001-768x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/world-news.001-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/world-news.001-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/world-news.001.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/world-news.001-450x338.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/world-news.001-850x638.jpeg 850w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/world-news.001-667x500.jpeg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Tricia Boucher<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/may\/17\/beautiful-dream-the-beirut-lgbt-centre-offering-an-oasis-of-tolerance\">Everyone is welcome: the only gay hangout in the Arab world<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Helem, in Beirut, Lebanon, is the first (and only) community center for LGBTQI+ persons in the ?Arab world?.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">? <\/span>Lebanon has a fairly open LGBT community, but the Beirut Pride festival has been suspended this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-gay-pride-china\/chinas-lgbt-community-treads-cautiously-amid-intolerance-idUSKCN1II1O1\">China&#8217;s LGBT community treads cautiously amid intolerance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trying to celebrate International Anti-Homophobia Day is difficult if you?re not allowed to congregate?or even run a celebratory 5k run as a group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-44126627?intlink_from_url=&amp;link_location=live-reporting-story\">Colombia LGBT: The shop that wants men to &#8216;leave behind shyness&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tranxtienda, in Bogota, Colombia, is an in-house-designed clothing store and tailor shop for men who prefer to dress in women?s clothing, no matter their sexual orientation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">? <\/span>It also functions as a social club for those who are not comfortable stepping out in their new attire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tricia Boucher Everyone is welcome: the only gay hangout in the Arab world Helem, in Beirut, Lebanon, is the first (and only) community center for LGBTQI+ persons in the ?Arab world?.? Lebanon has a fairly open LGBT community, but the Beirut Pride festival has been suspended this year. China&#8217;s LGBT community treads cautiously amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","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\/3679","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=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}