{"id":4075,"date":"2019-02-22T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4075"},"modified":"2019-02-19T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:19:55","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4075","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA+ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190219-richard-grenell-germany-cs-941a_b93abc3015cf42801775b2dbe2728fdc.fit-2000w-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190219-richard-grenell-germany-cs-941a_b93abc3015cf42801775b2dbe2728fdc.fit-2000w-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190219-richard-grenell-germany-cs-941a_b93abc3015cf42801775b2dbe2728fdc.fit-2000w-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190219-richard-grenell-germany-cs-941a_b93abc3015cf42801775b2dbe2728fdc.fit-2000w-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190219-richard-grenell-germany-cs-941a_b93abc3015cf42801775b2dbe2728fdc.fit-2000w.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/in-palm-springs-the-nations-first-all-lgbtq-city-council-tests-the-modern-meaning-of-diversity\/2019\/02\/18\/38f9b600-3074-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?utm_term=.ea371f5eddef\">In\nPalm Springs, the nation?s first all-LGBTQ city council tests the modern\nmeaning of diversity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the gay and lesbian community make up the majority of the electorate that selected a bisexual woman, a transgender woman, and three gay men to form the city council.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/trump-administration-launches-global-effort-end-criminalization-homosexuality-n973081\">Trump\nadministration launches global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Grenell, the top openly gay Trump administration\nofficial, is leading the effort to end the criminalization of homosexuality\nwhich is still a practice in more than 70 countries worldwide. LGBT activists\nfrom all over Europe have been invited to attend a strategy dinner where they\nwill discuss how to address the issue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/02\/many-lgbtq-youth-not-identify-traditional-sexual-identity-labels\/\">Many\nLGBTQ Youth Don?t Identify with Traditional Sexual Identity Labels<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Findings published in the <em>Journal of Research on Adolescence <\/em>surveyed LGBTQ teens across the country reinforce the fact that many of today&#8217;s teens use alternate sexual identity labels such as pansexual or non-binary. An interview with the lead author on the study is included.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2019\/02\/lessons-in-how-to-make-the-workplace-inclusive-for-lgbtq-employees\/\">How\nto navigate the gender landscape at work<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephanie Huckel, senior global program manager of diversity\nand inclusion at IGT, recently gave a talk at Harvard about language that\nshould be avoided in the workplace to facilitate a more inclusive environment.\nOne of the primary ways she advises people in sensitivity is to avoid\nheterosexualism, the assumption that someone is heterosexual just because there\nare no visual clues to the contrary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Palm Springs, the nation?s first all-LGBTQ city council tests the modern meaning of diversity Members of the gay and lesbian community make up the majority of the electorate that selected a bisexual woman, a transgender woman, and three gay men to form the city council.&nbsp; Trump administration launches global effort to end criminalization of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,770,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news","category-law","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075","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=4075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}