{"id":1252,"date":"2014-09-18T15:44:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2014-09-18T15:44:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T20:44:50","slug":"new-series-gotham-to-include-lesbian-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1252","title":{"rendered":"New Series \u2018Gotham\u2019 to Include Lesbian Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ashley R. Lierman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The upcoming FOX Batman prequel show will feature the character Detective Renee Montoya, a Latina lesbian, as part of its principal cast, according to show creators. Montoya came out as a lesbian in the Batman comics in 2003, and co\u2013executive producer Danny Cannon has affirmed the show\u2019s commitment to include the character\u2019s identity rather than espouse \u201cout-of-date values.\u201d Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/09\/10\/batman-tv-show-gotham-to-feature-lesbian-detective\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Victoria Cartagena, who will take on the recurring role of the detective, said: \u201cGrowing up, I rarely saw people of color or gay people depicted in a positive light, and I know when you don\u2019t see yourself reflected in the world around you, it does things to your self-esteem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know if I had seen a character like Renee on TV when I was younger \u2014 a Latina who is smart, powerful, and strong \u2014 it would\u2019ve encouraged me to dream bigger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I know what she means to people, and if watching me means that I can help someone else feel included, than that makes me very happy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The show will premiere this fall, starting on September 22<sup>nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashley R. Lierman The upcoming FOX Batman prequel show will feature the character Detective Renee Montoya, a Latina lesbian, as part of its principal cast, according to show creators. Montoya came out as a lesbian in the Batman comics in 2003, and co\u2013executive producer Danny Cannon has affirmed the show\u2019s commitment to include the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","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=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}