{"id":13273,"date":"2015-01-20T16:10:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/massachusetts-advocates-prepare-for-legislative-session\/"},"modified":"2015-01-20T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T21:10:12","slug":"massachusetts-advocates-prepare-for-legislative-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/massachusetts-advocates-prepare-for-legislative-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Advocates Prepare for Legislative Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Massachusetts Advocates Prepare for Legislative Session<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/\/files\/images\/blog\/massequality3-january2015-blog450.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>                        Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), MassEquality, and other groups are working together to urge the Massachusetts General Assembly to add public accommodations protections based on gender identity.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/massachusetts-advocates-prepare-for-legislative-session?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/massachusetts-advocates-prepare-for-legislative-session?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Advocates Prepare for Legislative Session Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), MassEquality, and other groups are working together to urge the Massachusetts General Assembly to add public accommodations protections based on gender identity. <a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/massachusetts-advocates-prepare-for-legislative-session?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/massachusetts-advocates-prepare-for-legislative-session?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Massachusetts Advocates Prepare for Legislative Session - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/massachusetts-advocates-prepare-for-legislative-session\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Massachusetts Advocates Prepare for Legislative Session - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Massachusetts Advocates Prepare for Legislative Session Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), MassEquality, and other groups are working together to urge the Massachusetts General Assembly to add public accommodations protections based on gender identity. 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