{"id":4172,"date":"2019-05-02T08:25:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T12:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2019-05-02T08:25:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T12:25:38","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4172","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA+ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cQQREnzw41s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mormon\nCollege Valedictorian Comes Out As Gay In Viral Graduation Speech | TODAY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt Easton, this year&#8217;s\nvaledictorian at Brigham Young University, used part of his commencement\nceremony address to come out as a gay man. &nbsp;Saying that he is proud to be\na &#8220;gay son of God,&#8221; Easton&#8217;s speech was approved by the Dean&#8217;s office,\neven as BYU&#8217;s honor code forbids all types of &#8220;physical intimacy that give\nexpression to homosexual feelings.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/tennessee-spikes-bill-allowing-lgbtq-adoption-refusals-n1000556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tennessee spikes bill allowing LGBTQ adoption refusals<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190501-tennessee-state-capitol-al-1004_a17c711cea1fae0ed9fd04d66c3025d3.fit-2000w-1024x527.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190501-tennessee-state-capitol-al-1004_a17c711cea1fae0ed9fd04d66c3025d3.fit-2000w-1024x527.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190501-tennessee-state-capitol-al-1004_a17c711cea1fae0ed9fd04d66c3025d3.fit-2000w-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190501-tennessee-state-capitol-al-1004_a17c711cea1fae0ed9fd04d66c3025d3.fit-2000w-768x395.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190501-tennessee-state-capitol-al-1004_a17c711cea1fae0ed9fd04d66c3025d3.fit-2000w.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tennessee lawmakers pull a bill\nscheduled for debate by the Tennessee Senate. The bill would have allowed faith\nbased adoption agencies to reject gay parents and others for their religious\nbeliefs. &nbsp;There was no reason given for withdrawing the bill, it will be\ntaken up in the next legislative session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mormon College Valedictorian Comes Out As Gay In Viral Graduation Speech | TODAY Matt Easton, this year&#8217;s valedictorian at Brigham Young University, used part of his commencement ceremony address to come out as a gay man. &nbsp;Saying that he is proud to be a &#8220;gay son of God,&#8221; Easton&#8217;s speech was approved by the Dean&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":4174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","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\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}