{"id":7692,"date":"2020-05-29T21:25:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T01:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2020-05-29T21:25:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T01:25:59","slug":"report-fl-bucks-southern-trend-of-hostile-lgbtq-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/05\/29\/report-fl-bucks-southern-trend-of-hostile-lgbtq-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: FL Bucks Southern Trend of &#8216;Hostile&#8217; LGBTQ Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by: Trimmel Gomes &#8211; Florida News Connection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gr-70376-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gr-70376-1-1.png 600w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gr-70376-1-1-300x288.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LGBTQ people in the southern U.S. are living under the &#8220;most hostile policy landscape&#8221; in the country, according to a new report that says Florida may be the exception.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtmap.org\/regional-south-tally?utm_source=MAP+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=6cc3841d31-EMAIL_REPORT_2020SOUTHERNTALLY_2020_05_26&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_ec825b19cf-6cc3841d31-94140139\">The report by the Movement Advancement Project<\/a>\u00a0examined 14 southern states and found unfriendly policies for the one in three individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning &#8211; and who call the South home.<br><br>The Project&#8217;s Policy Researcher Logan Casey says discriminatory laws target LGBTQ youth, adults considering fostering or adopting, and religious exemptions in healthcare. But he says 60% of Floridians live in places with inclusive, nondiscrimination protections.<br><br>&#8220;Florida has really been not just a Southern leader but national leader in advocating for LGBTQ communities,&#8221; says Casey. &#8220;(It) has been through achieving nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ communities at the local level.&#8221;<br><br>Casey credits grassroots efforts from groups like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eqfl.org\/\">Equality Florida<\/a>.<br><br>The report was released in partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCq6OAftTQOuUBRdtUDq5SUA?utm_source=MAP+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=6cc3841d31-EMAIL_REPORT_2020SOUTHERNTALLY_2020_05_26&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_ec825b19cf-6cc3841d31-94140139\">Prideland, a short-form digital series on PBS Voices, now on YouTube<\/a>. A one hour special will air on the Public Broadcasting Service on June 12.<br><br>Casey says about half of all LGBTQ people across the country live in states that don&#8217;t have statewide anti-discrimination protections for their employment, housing and public places and businesses.<br><br>&#8220;Every state in the South, except Virginia, lacks those statewide protections,&#8221; says Casey. &#8220;And LGBTQ community members and advocates in Florida have been extremely successful at seeking out and passing local-level ordinances to prohibit such discrimination in cities and counties.&#8221;<br><br>The Prideland series follows actor Dyllon Burnside, who identifies as queer, on a journey across the South to meet diverse members of the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by: Trimmel Gomes &#8211; Florida News Connection LGBTQ people in the southern U.S. are living under the &#8220;most hostile policy landscape&#8221; in the country, according to a new report that&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}