{"id":4141,"date":"2019-04-03T08:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2019-04-03T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:59:41","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4141","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA+ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/affirming-mosques-help-gay-muslims-reconcile-faith-sexuality-n988151\">Affirming\nmosques help gay Muslims reconcile faith, sexuality<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around the world, more inclusive mosques are opening their\ndoors and instituting policies that are more LGBTQ friendly. Although there is\ncurrently no formal movement for the establishment or tracking of these mosques\nin the US, they seem to be growing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jilliandonfro\/2019\/04\/01\/google-employees-protest-anti-lgbtq-conservatives-appointment-to-its-ai-ethics-council\/#683e908713e1\">Google\nEmployees Protest &#8216;Anti-LGBTQ&#8217; Conservative&#8217;s Appointment To AI Ethics Council<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/960x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/960x0.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/960x0-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/960x0-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A petition calling for the removal of Kay Coles James, the\npresident of a conservative think tank, from the newly formed artificial\nintelligence ethics council is circulating at Google. James has a history of\nopposing legislation that would protect LGBTQ populations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2019\/mar\/29\/amazon-other-washington-companies-get-perfect-scor\/\">Amazon,\nother Washington companies, get perfect scores for LGBTQ policies, but some\nadvocates ask for more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Amazon_Autism_Books.JPG_t1170-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Amazon_Autism_Books.JPG_t1170-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Amazon_Autism_Books.JPG_t1170-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Amazon_Autism_Books.JPG_t1170-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Amazon_Autism_Books.JPG_t1170.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Human Rights Campaign Foundation awarded scores of 100 to Amazon and other companies in Washington this week for their workplace policies protecting LGBTQ employees. Despite this good news, the LGBTQ advocacy Group &#8220;No Gay? No Way!&#8221; is pressuring Amazon to reconsider their commitment to growing their operations in areas that are not LGBTQ friendly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Affirming mosques help gay Muslims reconcile faith, sexuality Around the world, more inclusive mosques are opening their doors and instituting policies that are more LGBTQ friendly. Although there is currently no formal movement for the establishment or tracking of these mosques in the US, they seem to be growing.&nbsp; Google Employees Protest &#8216;Anti-LGBTQ&#8217; Conservative&#8217;s Appointment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":4144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,770,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4141","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\/4141","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=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}