{"id":1639,"date":"2015-02-08T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2015-02-08T08:13:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:13:09","slug":"facebook-censoring-gay-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1639","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Censoring Gay Images?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ashley R. Lierman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Michael Stokes, a photographer whose work focuses on male homoeroticism, is one of a growing number of Facebook users to report censorship of gay-themed images on the site. According to Stokes, Facebook has been opaque about the process of removing images and it is difficult to establish a pattern or reason behind the deletions, but he has experienced a number of difficulties with his work being removed and his access to his account impeded. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/media\/2015\/01\/30\/why-does-facebook-censor-gay-images\">Read the Advocate&#8217;s interview with Stokes here.<\/a> (WARNING: includes suggestive images, possibly not safe for work)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashley R. Lierman Michael Stokes, a photographer whose work focuses on male homoeroticism, is one of a growing number of Facebook users to report censorship of gay-themed images on the site. According to Stokes, Facebook has been opaque about the process of removing images and it is difficult to establish a pattern or reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","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\/1639","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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}