{"id":30812,"date":"2017-04-20T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=30812"},"modified":"2017-04-20T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:14:35","slug":"bradbury-sullivan-lgbt-community-center-applauds-passage-non-discrimination-ordinance-stroudsburg-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=30812","title":{"rendered":"Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center Applauds Passage of Non-Discrimination Ordinance in Stroudsburg, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">ALLENTOWN, PA &#8212;\u00a0Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center\u00a0applauds the borough of Stoudsburg, Monroe County, PA on passage of their non-discrimination ordinance last night. The ordinance passed with a bipartisan 4-3 vote. This represents the first <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u200b LGBT-inclusive\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">non-discrimination ordinance in Monroe County.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\u200b Liz Bradbury, Director of The Training Institute at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, provided testimony at the council meeting.\u200b<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><b>\u200b\u200b<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Far too many LGBT Pennsylvanians still fear discrimination because most Pennsylvanians live without laws to protect them from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodation based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Stroudsburg did the right thing by passing these important non-discrimination protections last night. LGBT people who live and work in Stroudsburg now know that discrimination is illegal in the borough. The state legislature should follow Stroudsburg&#8217;s lead and fully protect the rights of LGBT Pennsylvanians.&#8221; <span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><b>Adrian Shanker, Executive Director of Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"gmail_default m_3359220092871779455m_3582686789029521347m_-4114259334095105975gmail-m_-3593279794012295784m_-588222535501968553m_-2292022526662143986m_-5895961292286582407gmail-m_-8523777454154195617gmail-m_-6205558110894634990gmail-m_1155068333684176855gmail-m_-5898842633702071475gmail-m_-5904139923983439521m_-3832331193241715417m_-3960865086975114667gmail-m_2543218764992035095gmail_msg m_3359220092871779455m_3582686789029521347m_-4114259334095105975gmail-m_-3593279794012295784m_-588222535501968553m_-2292022526662143986m_-5895961292286582407gmail-m_-8523777454154195617gmail-m_-6205558110894634990gmail-m_1155068333684176855gmail-m_-5898842633702071475gmail-m_-5904139923983439521m_-3832331193241715417gmail_msg\">\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\u200b<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">About Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradburysullivancenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.bradburysullivancenter.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1492805168773000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGjaxcLMWFT164DQyK-6XGvg3UHaA\">www.bradburysullivancenter.or<wbr \/>g<\/a>) 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><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information Provided By:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adrian Shanker<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span>Executive Director<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; ALLENTOWN, PA &#8212;\u00a0Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center\u00a0applauds the borough of Stoudsburg, Monroe County, PA on passage of their non-discrimination ordinance last night. The ordinance passed with a bipartisan 4-3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=30812\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center Applauds Passage of Non-Discrimination Ordinance in Stroudsburg, PA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","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-30812","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\/30812"}],"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=30812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30812\/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=30812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}