{"id":15154,"date":"2023-06-01T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T13:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/?p=15154"},"modified":"2023-06-01T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:48:07","slug":"welcome-to-pride-month-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2023\/06\/welcome-to-pride-month-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Pride Month 2023!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month is celebrated in June of each year to commemorate the Stonewall Uprising. The Library of Congress has <\/span>a <a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\" href=\"https:\/\/guides.loc.gov\/lgbtq-studies\/stonewall-era\">great article on this topic<\/a><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>People who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) are members of every community. Students, patrons, staff, health care providers, parents, patients, and more identify as LGBTQIA+.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s new for Pride Month this year? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/lgbthealth\/summer\/index.html\">Get Healthy and Ready for Summer 2023<\/a>! The warmer months are full of events that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. Preparing for this season is a great opportunity to make sure that you stay healthy before, during, and after these celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC has recommendations to have a safe, healthy, and fun summer. Follow along with these topics: Know Before You Go; Stay Up to Date on Your Sexual Health Care; Stay Up to Date on COVID-19; Stop Overdose.<\/p>\n<p>Related CDC Resources<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gettested.cdc.gov\/\">GetTested<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/poxvirus\/mpox\/index.html\">Mpox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/index.html\">COVID-19<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each Wednesday in June we will be highlighting a different LGBTQ+ health topic to celebrate Pride Month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month is celebrated in June of each year to commemorate the Stonewall Uprising. The Library of Congress has a great article on this topic. People who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) are members of every community. Students, patrons, staff, health care providers, parents,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2023\/06\/welcome-to-pride-month-2023\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":15155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[151],"tags":[234,267],"class_list":["post-15154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-lgbtq","tag-lgbtq-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Get-Healthy-For-Summer.png?fit=940%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NC9K-3Wq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15212,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions\/15212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}