{"id":3774,"date":"2018-08-08T08:49:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T12:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2018-08-14T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:17:18","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-roundup-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3774","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA+ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3775\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ap_18156741250023_wide-56c715cac2929d8470efaa26f56787ec815b05a2-s800-c85-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ap_18156741250023_wide-56c715cac2929d8470efaa26f56787ec815b05a2-s800-c85-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ap_18156741250023_wide-56c715cac2929d8470efaa26f56787ec815b05a2-s800-c85-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ap_18156741250023_wide-56c715cac2929d8470efaa26f56787ec815b05a2-s800-c85-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ap_18156741250023_wide-56c715cac2929d8470efaa26f56787ec815b05a2-s800-c85.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By K. Van Abel<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/07\/31\/634243854\/senate-bill-to-require-sexual-orientation-gender-identity-data-by-2030-census\">Senate Bill To Require Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Data By 2030 Census<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democratic senators have introduced a bill which would require questions about household members gender identity and sexual orientation to be asked in the 2030 Census and as early as the 2020 American Community Survey.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/04\/us\/politics\/gay-candidates-midterms.html\">A ?Rainbow Wave?? 2018 Has More L.G.B.T. Candidates Than Ever<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are more than 400 gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender candidates running for political office this year in response to rollbacks on protections under the current administration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/debtfreeguys\/2018\/08\/07\/this-founder-explains-the-corporate-benefit-of-lgbt-leadership\/#773f7e747041\"><strong>This Founder Explains The Corporate Benefit Of LGBT Leadership<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of all LGBT employees are not &#8220;out&#8221; at work. Todd Sears, the founder of Out Leadership, shares how fostering a more inclusive environment for LGBT employees benefits businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By K. Van Abel Senate Bill To Require Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Data By 2030 Census Democratic senators have introduced a bill which would require questions about household members gender identity and sexual orientation to be asked in the 2030 Census and as early as the 2020 American Community Survey. A ?Rainbow Wave?? 2018 Has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":3775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,770],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774","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\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}