{"id":121258,"date":"2026-06-16T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/16\/as-political-power-erodes-black-gay-men-seek-key-roles-in-congress-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:06:00","slug":"as-political-power-erodes-black-gay-men-seek-key-roles-in-congress-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/16\/as-political-power-erodes-black-gay-men-seek-key-roles-in-congress-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"As political power erodes, Black gay men seek key roles in Congress &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuwFBVV95cUxQX2FxckYxLXNkU3RTV3NVR3YzV0pqOHh3Wmc3a200SXhPNjh5LUxZRmpodFMzbGVOSkpGaFJvNHJELWl4Snc0el9mS1FpOVBYSDJuZDQzNHBpeEVHYkJQV01wdEh0ZFQ1NXExbDRMWmRqYTMyYjZTbWlCYU1MdE42Z05RcTFMS3BjNVN4T3J6MGgtMEZlMVVpUVpKZjAtX0Q5Q3lzY3FfLXVCel9mVVBIelZITlJRNF9tUjhZ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">As political power erodes, Black gay men seek key roles in Congress<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">USA Today<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As political power erodes, Black gay men seek key roles in Congress&nbsp;&nbsp;USA Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}