{"id":26500,"date":"2017-01-25T16:43:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T21:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=26500"},"modified":"2017-01-25T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T21:44:07","slug":"bradbury-sullivan-lgbt-community-center-applauds-lehigh-valley-mayors-standing-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=26500","title":{"rendered":"Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center Applauds Lehigh Valley Mayors for Standing Against Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">ALLENTOWN, PA &#8212; In response to the launch of the Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination Coalition, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center&#8217;s Executive Director, Adrian Shanker, released the\u00a0following statement:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<div class=\"gmail_default m_-1538864322257602234gmail-m_1763029831011291536gmail-m_-5898842633702071475gmail-m_-5904139923983439521m_-3832331193241715417m_-3960865086975114667gmail-m_2543218764992035095gmail_msg m_-1538864322257602234gmail-m_1763029831011291536gmail-m_-5898842633702071475gmail-m_-5904139923983439521m_-3832331193241715417gmail_msg\">\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Lehigh Valley LGBT community is represented by Mayors in all three of our Cities who value diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to see Mayors Donchez, Panto, and Pawlowski all endorse LGBT non-discrimination by joining this national coalition of mayors committed to equal opportunity for LGBT people. The State of Pennsylvania should follow the lead of Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton and adopt statewide non-discrimination protections for the LGBT community.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\u200bFor more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayorsagainstlgbtdiscrimination.org\/coalition\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">www.<\/span><\/u><wbr \/>mayorsagainstlgbtdiscriminatio<wbr \/>n.org\/coalition\/<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u200b<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<div class=\"gmail_default m_-1538864322257602234gmail-m_1763029831011291536gmail-m_-5898842633702071475gmail-m_-5904139923983439521m_-3832331193241715417m_-3960865086975114667gmail-m_2543218764992035095gmail_msg m_-1538864322257602234gmail-m_1763029831011291536gmail-m_-5898842633702071475gmail-m_-5904139923983439521m_-3832331193241715417gmail_msg\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">About Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradburysullivancenter.org\"><u><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">www.bradburysullivancenter.or<\/span><\/u><wbr \/>g<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;\">) provides arts &amp; culture, health promotion, and youth programs as well as supportive services to strengthen and support the LGBT community across the Greater Lehigh Valley.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LGBT-Lehigh-Valley-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}