{"id":4200,"date":"2019-05-21T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2019-05-21T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:15:06","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4200","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA+ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/competenetwork.com\/aquatics-competition-brings-international-lgbtq-athletes-to-new-york-city-to-join-historic-world-pride-and-stonewall-50-celebration\/\">Acquatics Competition brings international LGBTQ+ athletes to New York City to join historic WorldPride and Stonewall 50 celebration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 25th?International LGBTQ+ Aquatics (IGLA) Championships?will bring 1500 swimmers to New York City in June 2019. ?The event will coincide with the?WorldPride?and?Stonewall 50?celebrations, marking the global impact of New York City?s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer history and community.? If you are attending Stonewall 50 in New York City and would like to add some sporting events to your itinerary, the IGLA Championships will run from June 24th to June 29th, 2019.? The competitions take place at various locations in Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, and New Jersey.? The Pink Flamingo event, which closes out the competition, originated at Gay Games 1986, and has been a fan favorite for 30 + years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/INAUGURATION_052119_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/INAUGURATION_052119_11.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/INAUGURATION_052119_11-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/INAUGURATION_052119_11-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2019\/5\/20\/18632430\/lori-lightfoot-mayor-inauguration-council\">Lori Lightfoot sworn in as mayor of Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lori Lightfoot took the oath of office on Monday morning, May 20, 2019, while her wife Amy and daughter Vivian looked on.? She is the first African American woman, and the first openly gay mayor in Chicago&#8217;s history.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ct-met-lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-fundraising-20180518-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ct-met-lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-fundraising-20180518-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ct-met-lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-fundraising-20180518-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ct-met-lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-fundraising-20180518-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ct-met-lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-fundraising-20180518-1680x945.jpg 1680w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ct-met-lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-fundraising-20180518-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ct-met-lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-fundraising-20180518-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ct-met-lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-fundraising-20180518-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ct-met-lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-fundraising-20180518-280x158.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ct-met-lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-fundraising-20180518.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Democracy Now!&#8221; hosts Amy\nGoodman and Juan Gonzalez, along with Professor Barbara Ransby (African\nAmerican studies, gender and women&#8217;s studies, and history, University of\nIllinois, Chicago) discussed the significance of this win shortly after the\nelection in April 2019.&nbsp; You can view the discussion at the following\nlink:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2019\/4\/3\/electoral_history_in_chicago_first_african\">https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2019\/4\/3\/electoral_history_in_chicago_first_african<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acquatics Competition brings international LGBTQ+ athletes to New York City to join historic WorldPride and Stonewall 50 celebration The 25th?International LGBTQ+ Aquatics (IGLA) Championships?will bring 1500 swimmers to New York City in June 2019. ?The event will coincide with the?WorldPride?and?Stonewall 50?celebrations, marking the global impact of New York City?s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":4201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,770,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news","category-law","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200","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=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}