{"id":9902,"date":"2014-11-03T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T15:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/starting-conversations-about-lgbt-equality-in-the-most-unexpected-places\/"},"modified":"2014-11-03T10:10:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T15:10:01","slug":"starting-conversations-about-lgbt-equality-in-the-most-unexpected-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/starting-conversations-about-lgbt-equality-in-the-most-unexpected-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Conversations about LGBT Equality in the Most Unexpected Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Starting Conversations about LGBT Equality in the Most Unexpected Places<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/\/files\/images\/blog\/poa_logo_263x197.png\"><\/p>\n<p>                        Recently, HRC Alabama Field Organizer Tori Sisson and State Director Ashley Jackson were shopping for the HRC Alabama open house.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/starting-conversations-about-lgbt-equality-in-the-most-unexpected-places?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/starting-conversations-about-lgbt-equality-in-the-most-unexpected-places?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Conversations about LGBT Equality in the Most Unexpected Places Recently, HRC Alabama Field Organizer Tori Sisson and State Director Ashley Jackson were shopping for the HRC Alabama open house. <a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/starting-conversations-about-lgbt-equality-in-the-most-unexpected-places?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/starting-conversations-about-lgbt-equality-in-the-most-unexpected-places?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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Starting Conversations about LGBT Equality in the Most Unexpected Places - 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\/starting-conversations-about-lgbt-equality-in-the-most-unexpected-places\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Starting Conversations about LGBT Equality in the Most Unexpected Places - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Starting Conversations about LGBT Equality in the Most Unexpected Places Recently, HRC Alabama Field Organizer Tori Sisson and State Director Ashley Jackson were shopping for the HRC Alabama open house. 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