{"id":16777,"date":"2021-11-02T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/lgbt-history-month\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:40:51","slug":"lgbt-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/lgbt-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In October, we celebrated LGBT History Month. An important milestone for the LGBT community occurred last month, so we&#8217;d like to highlight this historic moment. Dr. Rachel Levine became an admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In October, she became the highest ranking, openly transgender, four-star official in the United States&#8217; eight uniformed services<\/li>\n<li>She is the first woman four-star admiral in the commissioned corps.<\/li>\n<li>She&#8217;s a pediatrician<\/li>\n<li>She&#8217;s a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine<\/li>\n<li>She&#8217;s held previous positions as the Pennsylvania physician general and as secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health<\/li>\n<li>She&#8217;s served as a board member of Equality Pennsylvania, an LGBT rights organization called .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a speech that paid tribute to other LGBTQ individuals who came before her, Dr. Levine said, &#8220;May this appointment today be the first of many more to come, as we create a diverse and more inclusive future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=psZiJhwAVO4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In solidarity,<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Miller<br \/>\nTechnical Assistant<br \/>\nOffice of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:k.miller1@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">k.miller1@hvcc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 02 Nov 2021 11:40:51 +0000 by\u00a0k.miller1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In October, we celebrated LGBT History Month. An important milestone for the LGBT community occurred last month, so we&#8217;d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}