{"id":19152,"date":"2019-02-13T23:20:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T23:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19152"},"modified":"2019-02-13T23:20:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T23:20:57","slug":"gay-hiv-positive-and-running-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/gay-hiv-positive-and-running-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay, HIV-Positive, and Running Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"articleImg \" style=\"box-sizing:border-box;color:#333333;font-family:'crimson text', serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gay, HIV-Positive, and Running Illinois\" src=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/sites\/advocate.com\/files\/2019\/02\/11\/gregharris750x422_0.jpg\" alt=\"Greg Harris\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"authorBox\" style=\"box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center;display:block;margin-top:5px;color:#333333;font-family:'crimson text', serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">\n<div class=\"box\">\n<div class=\"articleTeaser\">\n<p>Greg Harris, the new Illinois House majority leader, is one of several out lawmakers ascending to key posts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0 0 15px;font-size:20px;line-height:inherit !important;color:#333333;font-family:'crimson text', serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/election\/2018\/11\/07\/84-plus-lgbtq-people-elected-amid-rainbow-wave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rainbow wave of last year\u2019s midterm election<\/a>\u00a0is still resounding \u2014 as a record number of out LGBTQ lawmakers take their seats in state, local, and national offices, a record number are gaining leadership positions in state legislatures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0 0 15px;font-size:20px;line-height:inherit !important;color:#333333;font-family:'crimson text', serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">The midterms saw more than 150 out candidates elected at all levels of government, according to the LGBTQ Victory Fund, which endorses and works to elect such candidates. That brings the total to 680 in state bodies, local offices, and Congress, Victory Fund notes. And at the start of the 2019 legislative session, seven out LGBTQ lawmakers were chosen for state-level leadership positions, bringing the total to a historic high of 17. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/2019\/2\/13\/gay-hiv-positive-and-running-illinois\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Greg Harris, the new Illinois House majority leader, is one of several out lawmakers ascending to key posts. The\u00a0rainbow wave of last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}