{"id":50787,"date":"2025-12-03T06:43:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/50787\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:43:21","slug":"lgbt-center-of-greater-reading-reduces-hours-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/50787\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT Center of Greater Reading reduces hours | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 Due to changes in funding \u2014 including the loss of federal funding \u2014\u00a0the LGBT Center of Greater Reading in Centre Park says it is changing its hours.<\/p>\n<p>Starting this month, the center will be open Monday through Friday from noon to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>It will be closed on weekends, unless programming is scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the changes will let them conserve resources and realign programs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a moment of transition, but also a moment of possibility,&#8221; Executive Director Laura Biancone said in a statement on Monday. &#8220;We are committed to reimagining services, strengthening partnerships, and ensure LGBTQ+ people continue to have a place where they feel supported, affirmed, and connected.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Due to changes in funding \u2014 including the loss of federal funding \u2014\u00a0the LGBT Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[29042,29043,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-50787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-laura-biancone","tag-lgbt-center-of-greater-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}