{"id":1241,"date":"2014-09-11T19:07:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T00:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2014-09-25T19:28:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T00:28:12","slug":"news-roundup-gay-nfl-commercial-tom-of-finland-stamps-equality-allies-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1241","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup: Gay NFL commercial, Tom of Finland stamps, Equality allies, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sampling of stories from around the web this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DirecTV has a new commercial commemorating the return of football season featuring a same sex couple. <a href=\"http:\/\/vowser.advocate.com\/sports\/2014\/09\/06\/watch-directvs-ad-features-gay-nfl-fans\">Watch the ad here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Remember how we said last week that the NYC St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade was going to allow LGBT groups to participate? Yeah, apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/new-tolerant-st-patricks-day-parade-invokes-one-gay-group-per-year-rule-20140909\">it&#8217;s only one group per year.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Finland&#8217;s very homoerotic Tom of Finland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/09\/09\/finland-tom-of-finland-stamps-are-best-selling-ever\/\">stamp series is one of its bestselling ever<\/a>. They&#8217;ve even started using them on their mail in Russia to jab at that country&#8217;s anti-gay propaganda law.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Advocate\u00a0<\/em>announces their <a href=\"http:\/\/election2008.advocate.com\/business\/equality-allies\/2014\/09\/10\/equality-allies-2014\">2014 Equality Allies.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Here&#8217;s a sampling of stories from around the web this week: DirecTV has a new commercial commemorating the return of football season featuring a same sex couple. Watch the ad here. Remember how we said last week that the NYC St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade was going to allow LGBT groups to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}