{"id":3275468,"date":"2024-09-23T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3275468"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:53:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T17:53:50","slug":"chsr-news-september-23rd-2024-frederictons-2slgbtqia-community-joins-national-counter-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/general\/chsr-news-september-23rd-2024-frederictons-2slgbtqia-community-joins-national-counter-protest","title":{"rendered":"CHSR News &#8211; September 23rd, 2024 &#8211; Fredericton&#8217;s 2SLGBTQIA+ Community Joins National Counter Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joining a national cross-country counter-protest, Fredericton\u2019s 2SLGBTQIA+ community and allies gathered to fight against policies and rhetoric they deem hateful and dangerous to the province&#8217;s youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 80 Frederictonians gathered in front of the NB Legislature on Friday in support of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and to counter a movement called 1 Million March For Kids, a movement seeking to eliminate sexual orientation and gender identity curriculum and policies from Canadian schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The gathering was organized in unison with three other counter-demonstrations across the province and 35 total across the country. Where those impacted spoke out and shared their stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Johnny James spokes to the organizers about the importance of this demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2835\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-23-CHSR%20News-Fredericton%20Joins%20Cross%20Canada%20Counter-Protest%20Against%20Anti-2sLGBTQIA%2B%20March.wav\" title=\"Play\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CHSRfm_videoicon1.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"width: 100px; height: 50px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_wav\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-23-CHSR%20News-Fredericton%20Joins%20Cross%20Canada%20Counter-Protest%20Against%20Anti-2sLGBTQIA%2B%20March.wav\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3275468-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-23-CHSR%20News-Fredericton%20Joins%20Cross%20Canada%20Counter-Protest%20Against%20Anti-2sLGBTQIA%2B%20March.wav\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2024-09-23-CHSR%20News-Fredericton%20Joins%20Cross%20Canada%20Counter-Protest%20Against%20Anti-2sLGBTQIA%2B%20March.wav\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining a national cross-country counter-protest, Fredericton\u2019s 2SLGBTQIA+ community and allies gathered to fight against policies and rhetoric they deem hateful and dangerous to the province&#8217;s youth. Over 80 Frederictonians gathered in front of the NB Legislature on Friday in support of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and to counter a movement called 1 Million March For Kids,<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/general\/chsr-news-september-23rd-2024-frederictons-2slgbtqia-community-joins-national-counter-protest\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2837\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-23-CHSR%20News-Fredericton%20Joins%20Cross%20Canada%20Counter-Protest%20Against%20Anti-2sLGBTQIA%2B%20March.wav\" title=\"Play\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CHSRfm_videoicon1.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"width: 100px; height: 50px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_wav\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-23-CHSR%20News-Fredericton%20Joins%20Cross%20Canada%20Counter-Protest%20Against%20Anti-2sLGBTQIA%2B%20March.wav\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3275468-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-23-CHSR%20News-Fredericton%20Joins%20Cross%20Canada%20Counter-Protest%20Against%20Anti-2sLGBTQIA%2B%20March.wav\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2024-09-23-CHSR%20News-Fredericton%20Joins%20Cross%20Canada%20Counter-Protest%20Against%20Anti-2sLGBTQIA%2B%20March.wav\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3275689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12140,1,13495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3275468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chsr-news","category-general","category-ljinews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_8845-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275594,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275468\/revisions\/3275594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3275689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}