{"id":2313,"date":"2007-04-10T17:31:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T01:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/04\/gays-often-struggle-at-black-colleges\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T17:31:38","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T01:31:38","slug":"gays-often-struggle-at-black-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/04\/gays-often-struggle-at-black-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Gays Often Struggle at Black Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Gays-Black-Colleges.html\">Gays Often Struggle at Black Colleges<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So lured was April Maxwell by the promise of the black college experience, with its distinct traditions and tight-knit campus life, that she enrolled at Hampton University in 2001 without even visiting the waterfront campus.<\/p>\n<p>A lesbian who is open about her sexual orientation, she arrived eager to join the extended Hampton family.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, &#8221;I felt like I was the only gay person on campus &#8212; it seemed like nobody was really out,&#8221; said the now 24-year-old Maxwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times: Gays Often Struggle at Black Colleges So lured was April Maxwell by the promise of the black college experience, with its distinct traditions and tight-knit campus life, that she enrolled at Hampton University in 2001 without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/04\/gays-often-struggle-at-black-colleges\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}